Seminars, Talks and Lectures
Seminars, talks, courses and lectures on quantum field theory, quantum gravity, renormalization and related subjects
Online talk for the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
Abstract: I introduce the concept of purely virtual particle, or fakeon, and show how to use to make sense of quantum gravity as a quantum field theory. Then I discuss novel features of the classical limit and derive predictions in inflationary cosmology that could be tested in the forthcoming years, paying special attention to the effects of fakeons on perturbation spectra
Online talk for the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, (MPIK), Heidelberg, Germany
Abstract: I introduce the concept of purely virtual particle, or fakeon, and show how to use to make sense of quantum gravity as a quantum field theory. Then I discuss novel features of the classical limit and derive predictions in inflationary cosmology that could be tested in the forthcoming years, paying special attention to the effects of fakeons on perturbation spectra
Talk at NICPB, Tallinn, Estonia, Oct 14th, 2020
Abstract: I introduce the concept of purely virtual particle, or fakeon, and show how to use to make sense of quantum gravity as a quantum field theory. Then I discuss novel features of the classical limit and derive predictions in inflationary cosmology that could be tested in the forthcoming years, paying special attention to the effects of fakeons on perturbation spectra
Testable predictions of quantum gravity with fakeons on the spectra of the CMB radiation
Based on the paper 20A3 Renorm (arXiv: 2006.01163 [hep-th])
Talk given online by M. Piva for the Tokyo Institute of Technology, on Jun 16th, 2020
Talk given online by Marco Piva for the University of Sussex, on July 20th, 2020
Testable predictions of quantum gravity with fakeons on the spectra of the CMB radiation
Talk given by M. Piva at the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia, on Jun 9th, 2020
Based on the paper 20A3 Renorm (arXiv: 2006.01163 [hep-th])
Talk given at Penn State University, Dec 17, 2019
A new quantization prescription is able to endow quantum field theory with a new type of “particle”, the fakeon (fake particle), which mediates interactions, but cannot be observed. A massive fakeon of spin 2 (together with a scalar field) allows us to build a theory of quantum gravity that is both renormalizable and unitary, and to some extent unique. The theory predicts that causality is lost at sufficiently small distances, where time makes no longer sense. After presenting the general formulation of the theory, I explain its nontrivial classical limit, the modifications of the FLRW metric and the role of the cosmological constant. Finally, I discuss the possibility that the Higgs boson might be a fakeon.
Conferenza pubblica al pub “Lo spaventapasseri” di Pisa, il 28/11/2019 alle ore 20.00, sul tema della gravità quantistica
Talk given at the conference “Quantum Gravity and Quantum Geometry“, Nijmegen Oct 29 – Nov 1, 2019
A new quantization prescription is able to endow quantum field theory with a new type of “particle”, the fakeon (fake particle), which mediates interactions, but cannot be observed. A massive fakeon of spin 2 (together with a scalar field) allows us to build a theory of quantum gravity that is both renormalizable and unitary, and to some extent unique. The theory predicts that causality is lost at sufficiently small distances, where time makes no longer sense. After formulating the theory, I explain its main properties. In particular: the nontrivial classical limit, the modifications of the FLRW metric and the roles of the cosmological constant and the Hubble constant.
Talk given by Marco Piva at the conference “Avenues of quantum field theory in curved spacetime“, Modena, Sept 9th, 2019
Talk given at the conference “Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics 2019” – Perimeter Institute