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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 11: Classical General Relativity II

GR 11.6: Talk

Thursday, March 3, 2016, 15:50–16:05, VMP6 HS A

Conformal (Weyl) Gravity — •Patric Hölscher — Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

Conformal (Weyl) Gravity is a theory which is an alternative to the standard theory of gravity by Albert Einstein. Opposed to the standard theory, which has to impose dark matter and dark energy to agree with the observational data, Conformal Gravity is based on an invariance principle, which leads to a unique action for gravity. By exploiting this invariance principle one is able to tackle astrophysical and cosmological problems like the flattening of rotation curves of galaxies or the cosmological constant problem. Furthermore, this theory provides an approach for a unification of gravity and quantum mechanics. Unfortunately, this theory contains some unsolved problems like the gravitational wave solutions, which could lead to energy conservation being violated.