PIRSA:17050075

Gravity and non-locality

Diaz Benito, P. (2017). Gravity and non-locality. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/17050075

Diaz Benito, Pablo. Gravity and non-locality. Perimeter Institute, May. 18, 2017, https://pirsa.org/17050075 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:17050075,
            doi = {10.48660/17050075},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/17050075},
            author = {Diaz Benito, Pablo},
            keywords = {Quantum Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {Gravity and non-locality},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2017},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:17050075 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Pablo Diaz Benito

University of Lethbridge

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I will talk about the relation between non-local theories and gravity. The main thesis is that non-local field theories naturally induce gravity, even at the classical level. Supporting this idea, I will study bi-local scalar field theories, which involve minimal deviations from locality. We will treat them both, bi-local theories and gravity perturbatively. We will see that bi-local theories encode gravity together with higher spin fields.