Speaker
Lavinia Heisenberg
(ETHZ - ETH Zurich)
Description
In order to regularize the energy of point-like charged particles, Born and Infeld introduced a modification of the Maxwell lagrangian that naturally imposes an upper bound on electromagnetic fields. This approach was later taken by Deser and Gibbons to propose an analogous modification for gravity. I will review these ideas and discuss a scenario where inflation could be supported by a set of massive particles within the context of these theories.
Author
Lavinia Heisenberg
(ETHZ - ETH Zurich)
