Open EFT for Cosmology and Gravity

4 Aug 2026, 15:30
1h
Lecture Hall (Kavli IPMU)

Lecture Hall

Kavli IPMU

Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8583, Japan

Speaker

Toshifumi Noumi

Description

I will begin by reviewing the motivation for developing open-system effective field theories for cosmology and gravity. I will then discuss how dynamical gravity can be consistently incorporated into the Schwinger–Keldysh EFT framework for systems with local dissipation, emphasizing the role of collective modes that encode fluctuations in the environmental sector. Finally, I will discuss possible applications of this framework.

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