Constructing Galileons
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-09-02 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
In this plenary talk delivered at the DISCRETE 2014 conference in London, I briefly summarize the ideas behind and attractive properties of the Galileon field theories, and describe a broad class of scalar field theories that share these properties. After describing how Galileons arise, and commenting on their fascinating properties, in the latter half of the talk I focus on novel ways of constructing Galileon-like theories, using both the probe brane construction, and the coset construction.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1503.01024,
title = {Constructing Galileons},
author = {Mark Trodden},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.01024},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
15 pages, To appear in the proceedings of the DISCRETE 2014 conference, King's College London, December 2014