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

Speaker: Shinji Mukohyama (YITP, Kyoto Univ.)
Title: Effective field theory of black hole perturbations with timelike scalar profile
Date (JST): Fri, Mar 08, 2024, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Abstract: Many dark energy (DE) models are based on a scalar field
with timelike gradient while black holes (BHs) serve as probes of
strong gravity. In this talk we begin with a review of the systematic
construction of the effective field theory (EFT) describing
perturbations around the Minkowski background with a timelike scalar
profile and its extension to cosmological backgrounds, i.e. the ghost
condensation and the EFT of inflation/DE. If one hopes to learn
something about the EFT of DE from BHs then one needs to consider BH
solutions with timelike scalar profiles. We thus extend the EFT to
arbitrary backgrounds. Finally, we discuss applications of the general
EFT to study perturbations of BH with a timelike scalar field
responsible for DE.