from 30 November 2017 to 3 December 2017 (Europe/Warsaw)
University of Warsaw
Europe/Warsaw timezone
On the Cosmological Quantum Frame Problem in Multifield Inflation
Presented by Apostolos PILAFTSIS
on
1 Dec 2017
from
16:00
to
16:30
Session:
session 8
Content
Predictions for cosmological observables, such as the scalar and
tensor power spectra, their spectral indices and their higher order
runnings, suffer from the so-called frame problem. They depend on
whether the computation has been performed in the Jordan or Einstein
frame. In this talk, I will present a frame-covariant formalism which
enables one to address the frame problem in the context of general
scalar-curvature multifield theories. The formalism makes use of
notions and techniques known from differential geometry, and can be
extended beyond the tree approximation in the Vilkovisky-De Witt
framework which needs to be generalized appropriately. I will show
how frame-invariant predictions for cosmological observables can be
obtained in simple two-field models, motivated by Higgs inflation.
Place
Location: CENT III
Room: Lecture Hall A+B