24–26 Sept 2020
Europe/Warsaw timezone

Planck scale as a constant of integration

25 Sept 2020, 15:30
45m
keynote talk Cosmology

Speaker

Alexander Vikman (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Description

I will discuss local field theories with global degrees of freedom. The oldest of them is the so-called unimodular gravity introduced by Einstein a century ago. In this theory the cosmological constant is not a constant of nature, but merely a constant of integration. This provides an ideal landscape or ensemble of theories giving a different view on the origin of naturalness issues in modern physics.

Primary author

Alexander Vikman (Czech Academy of Sciences)

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