APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker: David Kaplan
Title: The cosmological constant, unimodular gravity, and nonlinear quantum mechanics
Date (JST): Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Abstract:
I will present the cosmological constant problem from the Hamiltonian perspective, and review unimodular gravity from the same perspective. I will discuss what it might take to solve the cosmological constant problem in this context, and show that non-linear mechanics is an option. I will also briefly discuss how weakly we have tested the Einstein-Hilbert action as the basis of quantum gravity.