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

Cecilia Bejarano: Modified teleparallelism: an alternative approach of modified gravity

30 Oct 2015, 15:30
30m
Blue room (Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC)

Blue room

Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Description

The so-called f(T) theories of gravity are a generalization of the well-known teleparallel equivalent of General Relativity in which the dynamical relevant object is the tetrad instead of the metric tensor and the degrees of freedom are encoded in the torsion rather than in the curvature. I will present the principal features of the teleparallel picture and some examples showing how this novel approach works.

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