The Palatini approach in gravitation
Orador: Diego Rubiera-Garcia (Universidade de Lisboa) Data, hora e local: 16 de fevereiro de 2016, às 11h30m na sala de reuniões do Departamento de Matemática. Resumo: We propose a formulation to modified theories of gravity where metric and affine connections are independent. Besides some interesting mathematical properties (like second-order field equations and absence of ghosts)…