Paracausal deformations of Lorentzian metrics and their consequences in quantum field theory

Date/heure
17 janvier 2022
03:30 - 04:30

Oratrice ou orateur
Simone Murro

Catégorie d'évènement
Séminaire de géométrie différentielle


Résumé

It is well-known that the space of Riemannian metrics on a smooth manifold is path-connected. Indeed, the convex combination of Riemannian metrics produces a Riemannian metric. This is not true, for the space of Lorentzian metric and a natural question pop up: Are there some natural operations that can be used to produce Lorentzian metrics starting from Lorentzian metrics?

This talk aims to provide sufficient conditions for some kind of linear combination of Lorentzian metrics to be a Lorentzian metric. In particular, the notion of paracausal deformation of a Lorentzian metric will be introduced and discussed in detail. After few characterizations, I will discuss shortly the consequences in quantum field theory.

Exposé en visio-conférence, retransmis en direct en salle de conférence de l’IECL Nancy. Lien public

https://webvisio.univ-lorraine.fr/index.html?id=5147&secret=84a837ee-c66c-4d9b-bd75-6f0d540a8c34