Sep 7 – 11, 2015
Warsaw, Poland
Europe/Zurich timezone

Covariantised Vector Galileons

Sep 10, 2015, 5:50 PM
20m
Rm 115+116

Rm 115+116

Speaker

Mathew Hull (University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom)

Description

Vectors with ghost-free derivative self-interactions have been shown to have interesting cosmological applications. They form a ghost-free extension of the Proca theory that has a Galileonic longitudinal mode and can be generated naturally via a Higgs mechanism. In this talk I will discuss recent results on the covariantisation of these models and their relation to general ghost-free scalar-tensor theories.

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