Palatini–Cartan gravity

Speaker

Alberto Cattaneo

University of Zurich

Schedule

Tuesday 09:00 - 10:30, April 22, Jingzhai 105

Wednesday 09:00 - 12:00 with breaks, April 23, Jingzhai 105

Monday 14:00 - 17:00 pm with breaks, April 28, Jingzhai 218

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Palatini–Cartan gravity

课程介绍 / Description

Lectures are aimed at an overview of Palatini–Cartan gravity (the formulation of general relativity in terms of Cartan’s frames, instead of metric tensors, and of independent connections) and what its boundary symplectic structure is. After an overview of the BV-BFV formalism (a cohomological method to deal with symmetries and constraints), I will discuss how to implement it in Palatini–Cartan gravity. As an extension of this, I will also describe the corner structure. Additionally, I will discuss relations with Einstein–Hilbert gravity.

Link:

http://bimsa.net/activity/PalatiniCartanGravity/

主讲人简介 / About the Speaker

Alberto Cattaneo is a Professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He received his PhD at the University of Milan in 1995. He was a postdoc at Harvard University (1995-1997) and at the University of Milan (1997-1998). He then moved to the University of Zurich, Switzerland, as an Assistant Professor (1998-2003) and as a Full Professor (since 2003).

He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006. He has made major contributions to the study of perturbative TQFTs, to Poisson geometry and deformation quantization, and to the development of cohomological methods (BV, BFV) for quantum gauge theories with particular interest in boundary (and corner) structures.