Higher-Curvature Gravity, Black Holes and Holography

Septiembre 19, 2019
De 11:30am hasta 12:30pm

IFT Seminar Room/Red Room

Specialist level
Speaker: 
Pablo Antonio Cano
Location&Place: 

IFT Seminar Room/Red Room

Abstract: 

Higher-curvature theories of gravity are extensions of General Relativity that arise in effective descriptions of quantum gravity theories, such as String Theory.  In this thesis we collect several recent results about higher-curvature gravities, including the characterization of theories that are ghost-free at the linear level, the construction of black hole solutions and new applications in the AdS/CFT correspondence.