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January 28, 2019 to February 1, 2019
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone
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Scale Invariant Theories of Gravity and the Meaning of the Planck Mass

Jan 31, 2019, 2:10 PM
40m
4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

CERN

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Speaker

Roberto Percacci

Description

I will review metric-affine theories of gravity and the occurrence of a Higgs mechanism that gives mass to the gravitational connection. I will then discuss the possibility of achieving quantum scale invariance at high energy in such theories.

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