OKC colloquia

Scale-invariant gravity and inflation

by Massimiliano Rinaldi (University of Trento)

Europe/Stockholm
FA31

FA31

Description
Increasingly accurate measurements of the spectrum associated to the cosmic microwave background indicate that the theory underlying cosmic inflation is close to being scale-invariant. This aspect has attracted much interest from theorists and various quasi scale-invariant models have been proposed. In my talk, I will review some of these with particular attention to modified gravity eventually implemented with quantum corrections. (Host: Sunny Vagnozzi)