19–23 Jun 2017
IFT (Madrid)
Europe/Madrid timezone

The cosmological constant problem and gravity in the extreme infrared

20 Jun 2017, 15:45
15m
Red Room (IFT)

Red Room

IFT

Nicolas Cabrera 13-15 Campus de Cantoblanco 28049 Madrid Spain
Parallel talk Parallel I

Speaker

David Stefanyszyn

Description

This talk is based on the vacuum energy sequestering scenario which is an approach to tackling cosmological constant problem via global modifications of gravity. We will discuss the core issue with the cosmological constant, namely, radiative instability and show how in the vacuum energy sequestering proposal the loop corrections decouple from the gravitational field equations order by order in perturbation theory.

Presentation type Parallel talk

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