Séminaire de Physique Théorique

Conformal gravity, gravitational waves and conformal symmetry breaking
Manu Paranjape (Univ. de Montréal, Canada)
Thursday 17 March 2011 11:00 -  Tours -  Salle 1180 (Bât E2)

Résumé :
We review conformal gravity and its application to the missing matter problem. We then consider spontaneous breaking of conformal symmetry. We find the existence of soliton configurations where the conformal symmetry is restored in the neighbourhood of the solitons. We also show that there are no simple plane fronted gravitational waves in this theory.

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