Gravity seminar - David Sloan Seminar

- Time:
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Date:
- 16 October 2014
- Venue:
- 54/5B
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Maarten van de Meent at m.vandemeent@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Inflationary attractors
I will show that within the Hamiltonian system of flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker cosmology coupled to a massive scalar field, the focussing of the Liouville measure on attractor solutions is brought about by a spread in a gauge degree of freedom - the spatial volume. One can conclude then that standard techniques from Hamiltonian dynamics suffice to provide a satisfactory description of attractor solutions and the measure problem.
Speaker information
David Sloan , Oxford