Speaker
Dr
Robert van den Hoogen
(St. Francis Xavier University)
Description
The construction of an averaged theory of gravity based on Einstein's General Relativity is challenging due in one part to the difficulty in defining a mathematically precise covariant averaging procedure for tensor fields over differentiable manifolds. Even if one is able to address the first problem, a second problem has to deal with the non-linear nature of the gravitational field equations. Together, these two ideas have been called the averaging problem. The Teleparallel Equivalent to GR offers us a promising alternative.
Author
Dr
Robert van den Hoogen
(St. Francis Xavier University)
