Gravity seminar - Kazuya Koyama Seminar

- Time:
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Date:
- 9Ìý´³²¹²Ô³Ü²¹°ù²âÌý2014
- Venue:
- 54/5A
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Marco Caldarelli at m.m.caldarelli@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Cosmological solutions in non-linear massive gravity
Massive gravity is an interesting theoretical laboratory to study modifications of General Relativity. The theory offers a concrete set-up to study models of dark energy since it admits cosmological self-accelerating solutions in the vacuum, in which the size of the acceleration depends on the graviton mass. Moreover, non-linear gravitational self-interactions mimic the predictions of linearised General Relativity in the proximity of a matter source, agreeing with precise solar-system measurements. In this talk, I review our work in the subject, classifying static solutions and self-accelerating backgrounds. For static solutions, we exhibit black hole configurations, together with other solutions that recover General Relativity near a source via the Vainshtein mechanism. For the self-accelerating solutions we describe a wide class of cosmological backgrounds, including an analysis of their stability.
Speaker information
Kazuya Koyama , University of Portsmouth. Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation