Seminar on Gravity

We will use the book Feynman Lectures on Gravitation and as a supplement T.Zee, Quantum field theory in a nutshell.

Graviton Exchange, Propagator (Feynman 3.1-3.4): Michael (special date Wed. 11 December, 10-11)

Free graviton Lagrangian (Feynman 3.5-4.2, Zee …): Lukas (16. January)

Scalar-graviton/photon-graviton interaction (Feynman 4.3-4.5, Zee…): Martin (30 January)

Gravity and point particles, planet orbits, perihelion precession (Feynman 4.6-5.1): Markus (13 February)

Self-interaction of gravitons (Feynman 5.5-6.2), full Lagrangian (Feynman 6.3-6.5): Heidi and Christian (27 February and 13 March)

Possible future topics could be the papers by Weinberg: Photons and Gravitons in Perturbation Theory: Derivation of Maxwell's and Einstein's Equations and Infrared Photons and Gravitons