PIRSA:24070096

Effective cuscuton theory

Mylova, M. (2024). Effective cuscuton theory. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/24070096

Mylova, Maria. Effective cuscuton theory. Perimeter Institute, Jul. 19, 2024, https://pirsa.org/24070096 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:24070096,
            doi = {10.48660/24070096},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/24070096},
            author = {Mylova, Maria},
            keywords = {},
            language = {en},
            title = {Effective cuscuton theory},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2024},
            month = {jul},
            note = {PIRSA:24070096 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Maria Mylova

University of Tokyo

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Abstract
Cuscuton field theory is an extension of general relativity that does not introduce additional propagating degrees of freedom, or violate relativistic causality. We construct a general geometric description of the cuscuton field theory by introducing curvature corrections to both the volume (potential) and the surface (kinetic) terms in the original cuscuton action. Our assumptions involve a stack of spacelike branes, separated by 4-dimensional bulks. We conjecture that the cuscuton, initially a discrete field, becomes continuous in the limit, there are many such transitions. From this we derive an effective action for the cuscuton theory and show that at the quadratic level our theory propagates only the two tensorial degrees of freedom.