Leonardo Senatore (Stanford) “Two applications of Effective Field Theory in Gravity: the EFT for probing extensions of General Relativity at LIGO, and the Supersymmetric EFT of Inflation” * special time*
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Abstract: I will discuss two applications of Effective Filed Theory in the context of gravity. One is an EFT that allows us to parametrize what extensions of GR can be tested with gravitational wave observations. The most general action not involving additional degrees of freedom corresponds to adding to the GR Lagrangian operators constructed out of powers of the Riemann … Read More