28–30 Oct 2015
Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC
Europe/Madrid timezone

Raúl Carballo-Rubio: Keeping the cosmological constant small at all scales

28 Oct 2015, 17:30
30m
Blue room (Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC)

Blue room

Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Description

The cosmological constant problem can be understood as the failure of the decoupling principle behind effective field theory, so that some quantities in the low-energy theory are extremely sensitive to the high-energy properties. While this reflects the genuine character of the cosmological constant, finding an adequate effective field theory framework which avoids this naturalness problem may represent a step forward to understand nature. We discuss in detail how Weyl transverse gravity helps in doing so.

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