Speaker
Prof.
Shinji Mukohyama
(YITP)
Description
It is generally believed that modification of general relativity inevitably introduces extra physical degree(s) of freedom. In this talk I argue that this is not the case by constructing modified gravity theories with two local physical degrees of freedom. After classifying such theories into two types, I show explicit examples and discuss their cosmology and phenomenology, such as possible amelioration of the H0 tension and stable massive gravity/bigravity cosmology.
