ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker: Frederic P Schuller (Albert-Einstein-Institute)
Title: Spacetimes beyond Einstein
Date (JST): Wed, Apr 11, 2012, 15:30 - 16:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 631.pdf
Abstract: Which tensorial geometries on a differentiable manifold can serve as a spacetime structure? And what are their dynamics? In this talk I will show -- through an interplay of the theory of partial differential equations, real algebraic geometry and convex analysis -- that there is a rather comprehensive mathematical answer.