20 January 2012
Aula Grassano - Dipartimento di Fisica - Università degli Studi di Roma
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Vacua of Maximal Supergravity and the cosmological constant

20 Jan 2012, 09:20
20m
Aula Grassano - Dipartimento di Fisica - Università degli Studi di Roma

Aula Grassano - Dipartimento di Fisica - Università degli Studi di Roma

Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 1 00133 Roma (ITALY)

Description

I will discuss recent developments in the construction of supergravity models in four dimensions with gauge interactions and in the identification of their vacua. The issue of stability of these solutions will be addressed and a link between gauge interactions and allowed values of the cosmological constant will be discussed. I will also outline an interesting structure that arises among the different new theories and vacua that have been found.

Primary author

Gianluca Inverso (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”)

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