Welcome to Majorana-Raychaudhuri Seminar series. We organise seminars in the field of Quantum Field Theory, Gravitation, Cosmology and Particle Physics on Fridays at 16.30 - 18.00 (IST*) / 12.00 - 13.00 (CET*) as a joint venture of INFN & University Salerno, Italy & PAMU, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.
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June 20, 2025: (12:00 - 12:45 CEST/ 15:30 - 16:15 IST)
Title: Strongly Coupled Sectors in Inflation: Gapless Theories and Unparticles
Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss the primordial universe scenarios where the inflaton is weakly coupled to a strongly-self-interacting theory, and study the imprints in cosmological correlators. There are three general scenarios for the strongly coupled sector based on its mass gap in Hubble units. I will focus on the gapless scenario, which I fully solved. Depending on the value of the unparticle scaling dimension, I will classify three characteristic shapes for the inflationary bispectra, including near-equilateral, near-orthogonal, and a novel shape which appears when the scaling dimensions are close to half-integers. If time permits, I will discuss the ongoing work about the gapped scenarios and possible model building.
June 20, 2025: (12:45 - 13:30 CEST/ 16:15 - 17:00 IST)
Title: Emergent Quantum Gravity from Irreversible Vierbein: A Scale-Invariant Realization
Abstract: We propose a novel approach to quantum gravity based on the irreversible vierbein postulate, in which the inverse vierbein is absent at the fundamental level. In this framework, spacetime structures—including an invertible metric and the Planck mass—can dynamically emerge through quantum effects. To explicitly demonstrate how this scenario can be realized, we present a concrete scale-invariant model. Within this realization, fermionic fluctuations trigger a quantum phase transition, naturally generating spacetime and gravitational scales. In this talk, we clarify the physical motivations behind the irreversible vierbein approach, outline the general formalism, and discuss possible implications for cosmology and gravitational phenomenology.
Organisers:
Gaetano Lambiase (University & INFN Salerno, Italy)
Supratik Pal (PAMU - ISI, Kolkata, India)
Anish Ghoshal (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Arnab Paul (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
Shiladitya Porey (Novosibirsk State University, Russia)