High Energy Theory Seminar

  8 April 2011

Ted Jacobson (Maryland)

Aspects of Aethereal Gravity

Abstract:

I will discuss deformations of general relativity incorporating a dynamical preferred rest frame (Einstein-aether theory) or absolute time function (Horava gravity). The talk will touch on a variety of topics, such as the relation between these theories, their stability, viability, cosmological features, black holes, and Hamiltonian structure.

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