Speaker
Thomas Zlosnik
(University of Gdansk)
Description
It was discovered by the French mathematician Elie Cartan that the geometry of a surface could be revealed by rolling a ball on it. Remarkably, the mathematical description of this rolling process involve ingredients familiar from modern gauge theories. Cartan-geometrical descriptions of General Relativity and teleparallel gravity are presented and it is argued that typically Cartan-geometric descriptions of gravity will introduce new - and potentially phenomenologically relevant - degrees of freedom in the gravitational sector.
Author
Thomas Zlosnik
(University of Gdansk)
