Institute for Advanced Study/Princeton University High Energy Theory Seminar - ADDED
New Developments in Massive Gravity
ABSTRACT: The idea that the graviton may be massive has seen a resurgence of interest due to recent progress which has overcome its traditional problems. I will review this recent progress, which has led to a consistent ghost-free effective field theory of a massive graviton, with a stable hierarchy between the graviton mass and the cutoff, and how this theory has the potential to resolve the naturalness problem of the cosmological constant.
Date & Time
February 17, 2012 | 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Location
Princeton University, Jadwin Hall, Room A08Speakers
Kurt Hinterbichler
Affiliation
University of Pennsylvania