23–27 Mar 2015
Nordita, Stockholm
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Ghost free and singularity free construction of gravity : classical and quantum aspects

26 Mar 2015, 11:10
50m
132:028 (Nordita, Stockholm)

132:028

Nordita, Stockholm

Speaker

Anupam Mazumdar

Description

I will discuss generalisation of Einstein's gravity in the ultraviolet by extending it to infinite derivative theory of gravity which can ameliorate cosmological and black hole singularities. Furthermore at quantum level such class of action can also be made finite up to 2 loops. Beyond 2 loops there are some conjectures.

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