Our collaboration focuses on topics where both gravity and quantum physics are relevant, ranging from investigating gravitational interaction at the fundamental level to studying black hole physics and cosmological models. Significant issues include understanding black hole formation and Hawking radiation, inflation as the standard paradigm of the primordial universe, dark energy, and dark matter. Alongside the well-established formalism of quantum field theory (QFT) in curved spacetime, which still provides a powerful tool for studying quantum effects in semiclassical gravity, today's novelty lies in the ability to formulate theoretical descriptions for the fully quantum regime of gravity. This is achieved through advanced methods in quantum field theory, such as effective actions in the renormalization group approach to high-energy regimes and generalized uncertainty principles inspired by string theory, along with particle models of specific self-gravitating systems.
- Stefano Ansoldi (coordinator) (U. Udine)
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