String Theory Seminars
Lorentz Invariance vs Principle of Equivalence (Quantum Spacetime Seminar)
by Chethan Krishnan (IISC, Bengaluru)
Monday, February 1, 2016
from
to
(Asia/Kolkata)
at DTP Seminar Room ( A-304 )
at DTP Seminar Room ( A-304 )
Description |
I will discuss a class of theories that arise as generalizations of general relativity when one demands the principle of equivalence (namely, that the metric is locally Minkowski and the connection is vanishing) but not necessarily that the metric derivatives are zero. A huge class of theories of this type with nice action principles (and many times simple field equations that generalize Einstein's equation) exist. |