Speaker
Gerardus 't Hooft
(Utrecht University)
Description
We rephrase the einstein-Hilbert theory of gravity by focusing on local conformal symmetry as an exact, but spontaneously broken symmetry of nature. We then put a constraint on the theory by imposing regularity of the action as the dilaton field variable tends to 0, which is a constraint on the small distance behaviour. This appears to turn a black hole into a regular, topologically trivial soliton without singularities, horizons of firewalls, but many questions remain.
Author
Gerardus 't Hooft
(Utrecht University)
