Einstein-Cartan Theory as an Averaged Theory of Gravity

by Prof. Juliane C. Behrend (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)

Tuesday 27 Nov 2012, 16:00 → 17:00 Asia/Kolkata

A269 (Colaba Campus)

In this talk I will show that the construction of a macroscopic theory of gravity for a corpuscular medium along the lines of classical electromagnetism naturally leads to an Einstein - Cartan theory. This theory is assumed to describe the universe on large scales.