The Palatini Formalism for Galileons

by Prof. Diederik ROEST (University of Groningen)

Tuesday Sep 29, 2015, 2:30 PM → 3:30 PM Europe/Paris

Amphithéâtre Léon Motchane (IHES)

In this blackboard presentation, we will outline a new Palatini formalism for Galileon scalar field theories. After a pedagogical review of the Palatini formalism for GR, we will outline how this carries over to the spin-0 case. This will uniquely single out the Galileon symmetry and provides a first-order formalism for such theories. Finally, we present possible extensions including the coupling to gravity.