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Double Field Theory (DFT) has emerged as a comprehensive framework for gravity, presenting a testable and robust alternative to General Relativity (GR), rooted in the $\mathbf{O}(D,D)$ symmetry principle of string theory. These lecture…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-09 Jeong-Hyuck Park

The paper is concerned with the development of a gravitational field theory having locally a covariant version of the Galilei group. We show that this Galilean gravity can be used to study the advance of perihelion of a planet, following in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-30 S. C. Ulhoa , F. C. Khanna , A. E. Santana

The effective field theory (EFT) for triaxially deformed even-even nuclei is generalized to include the vibrational degrees of freedom. The pertinent Hamiltonian is constructed up to next-to-leading order. The leading order part describes…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Q. B. Chen , N. Kaiser , Ulf-G. Meißner , J. Meng

In these lectures general relativity is outlined as the classical field theory of gravity, emphasizing physical phenomena rather than mathematical formalism. Dynamical solutions representing traveling waves as well as stationary fields like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 J. W. van Holten

Quantum gravity was born as that branch of modern theoretical physics that tries to unify its guiding principles, i.e., quantum mechanics and general relativity. Nowadays it is providing new insight into the unification of all fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-17 Giampiero Esposito

Given a theory containing both heavy and light fields (the UV theory), a standard procedure is to integrate out the heavy field to obtain an effective field theory (EFT) for the light fields. Typically the EFT equations of motion consist of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-04 Harvey S. Reall , Claude M. Warnick

We elaborate on the effective field theory (EFT) construction for dissipative open systems coupled to dynamical gravity, in light of recent developments on the EFT of dissipative hydrodynamics (HydroEFT). Our construction is based on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 Pak Hang Chris Lau , Kanji Nishii , Toshifumi Noumi

This is a summary talk covering recent progress in perturbative methods for gauge theories and gravity, applications of AdS/CFT duality, vacuum energy, and string theory models of particle physics and cosmology.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-10-22 Joseph Polchinski

We review recent progress and future prospects for harnessing powerful tools from theoretical high-energy physics, such as scattering amplitudes and effective field theory, to develop a precise and systematically improvable framework for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-12 Alessandra Buonanno , Mohammed Khalil , Donal O'Connell , Radu Roiban , Mikhail P. Solon , Mao Zeng

The implications of an effective field theory (EFT) interpretation of nuclear mean-field phenomenology are reviewed.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 R. J. Furnstahl , Brian D. Serot

NRGR, an Effective Field Theory approach to gravity, has emerged as a powerful tool to systematically compute higher order corrections in the Post-Newtonian expansion. Here we discuss in somehow more detail the recently reported new results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Rafael A. Porto

This paper explores modifications to General Relativity (GR) by considering higher-order curvature terms in the gravitational action, specifically focusing on the quadratic Ricci scalar and a particular cubic contraction of the Riemann…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-05 Raghotham A Kulkarni , Rahul , Soham Bhattacharyya , Dawood Kothawala

In this paper we construct an effective field theory (EFT) that describes long wavelength gravitational radiation from compact systems. To leading order, this EFT consists of the multipole expansion, which we describe in terms of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Walter D. Goldberger , Andreas Ross

Fully covariant wave equations predict the existence of a class of inertial-gravitational effects that can be tested experimentally. In these equations inertia and gravity appear as external classical fields, but, by conforming to general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Papini

This thesis investigates the role of the quantum gravity cut-off for effective field theories (EFTs) coupled to Einstein gravity, with an emphasis on its implications at low energies within the context of the Swampland program. Part I…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-17 Alberto Castellano

Effective Field Theory (EFT) provides a powerful framework that exploits a separation of scales in physical systems to perform systematically improvable, model-independent calculations. Particularly interesting are few-body systems with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 H. -W. Hammer

We outline the program to apply modern quantum field theory methods to calculate observables in classical general relativity through a truncation to classical terms of the multi-graviton two-body on-shell scattering amplitudes between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-31 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Poul H. Damgaard , Guido Festuccia , Ludovic Planté , Pierre Vanhove

There are many possible gravitational applications of an effective approach to Quantum Field Theory (QFT) in curved space. We present a brief review of effective approach and discuss its impact for such relevant issues as the cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Ilya L. Shapiro

As a low energy effective field theory, classical General Relativity receives an infrared relevant modification from the conformal trace anomaly of the energy-momentum tensor of massless, or nearly massless, quantum fields. The local form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-04 Emil Mottola

Einstein's general theory of relativity is the standard theory of gravity, especially where the needs of astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental physics are concerned. As such, this theory is used for many practical purposes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-15 Slava G. Turyshev