# Quantum Gravity

This series consists of talks in the area of Quantum Gravity.

## Seminar Series Events/Videos

May 23 2019 - 2:30pm
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May 30 2019 - 2:30pm
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## Line of fixed points in a bosonic tensor model

Thursday May 16, 2019
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Tensor models exhibit a melonic large $N$ limit: this is a non trivial family of Feynman graphs that can be explicitly summed in many situations. In $d$ dimensions, they give rise to a new family of conformal field theories and provide interesting examples of the renormalization group flow from a free theory in the UV to a melonic large $N$ CFT in the IR.

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## A Self-consistent Model of Quantum Black Hole

Thursday May 09, 2019
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What is the black hole in quantum mechanics? We examine this problem in a self-consistent manner. First, we analyze time evolution of a 4D spherically symmetric collapsing matter including the back reaction of particle creation that occurs in the time-dependent spacetime. As a result, a compact high-density star with no horizon or singularity is formed and eventually evaporates. This is a quantum black hole. We can construct a self-consistent solution of the semi-classical Einstein equation showing this structure.

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## The Functional Renormalization Group Equation as an Approach to the Continuum Limit of Tensor Models for Quantum Gravity

Thursday May 02, 2019
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Tensor Models provide one of the calculationally simplest approaches to defining a partition function for random discrete geometries. The continuum limit of these discrete models then provides a background-independent construction of a partition function of continuum geometry, which are candadates for quantum gravity. The blue-print for this approach is provided by the matrix model approach to two-dimensional quantum gravity. The past ten years have seen a lot of progress using (un)colored tensor models to describe state sums if discrete geometries in more than two dimensions.

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## Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity and the Schwarzian

Thursday Apr 18, 2019
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We derive Schwarzian correlation functions using the BF formulation of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, where bilocal operators are interpreted as boundary-anchored Wilson lines in the bulk. Crossing Wilson lines are associated with OTO-correlators and give rise to 6j-symbols. We discuss the semi-classical bulk black hole physics contained within the correlation functions.

Extensions including bulk defects related to the other coadjoint orbits are discussed.

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## Soft Heisenberg hair

Thursday Apr 11, 2019
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Gravity theories naturally allow for edge states generated by non-trivial boundary-condition preserving diffeomorphisms. I present a specific set of boundary conditions inspired by near horizon physics, show that it leads to soft hair excitations of black hole solutions and discuss implications for black hole entropy.

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## Spacetime structure from interactions between quantum fluctuations

Thursday Mar 21, 2019
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I will discuss an attempt at approaching quantum features of spacetime from a microscopic point of view. In combination with quantum gravity, one can consider a scenario in which spacetime has structure at the level of quantum interactions, and classical spacetime emerges at larger scales. This type of scenario would require entangling interactions, and a reliance on information exchange would have effects on the classical field theory.

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## Matter-Gravity Entanglement in Quantum Gravity

Thursday Mar 07, 2019
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Quantum gravity may be viewed as a bipartite matter-geometry system. Evolution of matter-geometry entanglement entropy is an interesting question for issues such as the emergence of QFT on curved spacetime from quantum gravity: emergence would require initial states to evolve to product states. We study this question in a cosmological model. We give numerical evidence that matter-geometry entanglement entropy increases indefinitely (with respect to a relational time) for apparently arbitrary initial states.

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## SO(7,7) structure of the SM fermions

Thursday Feb 28, 2019
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I will describe the relevant representation theory that allows to think of all components of fermions of a single generation of the Standard Model as components of a single Weyl spinor of an orthogonal group whose complexification is SO(14,C). There are then only two real forms that do not lead to fermion doubling. One of these real forms is the split signature orthogonal group SO(7,7). I will describe some exceptional phenomena that occur for the orthogonal groups in 14 dimensions, and then specifically for this real form.

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## Tensor models and combinatorics of triangulations in dimensions d>2

Wednesday Feb 27, 2019
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Tensor models are generalizations of vector and matrix models. They have been introduced in quantum gravity and are also relevant in the SYK model. I will mostly focus on models with a U(N)^d-invariance where d is the number of indices of the complex tensor, and a special case at d=3 with O(N)^3 invariance. The interactions and observables are then labeled by (d-1)-dimensional triangulations of PL pseudo-manifolds. The main result of this talk is the large N limit of observables corresponding to 2-dimensional planar triangulations at d=3.

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## Formulations of General Relativity (Part 4 of 4)

Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
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The goal of this series is to collect various different formulations of General Relativity, with emphasis on four spacetime dimensions and formulations that use differential forms. The (non-exhaustive) list of formulations to be covered is per this plan:

Lecture 1): Motivations, followed by the usual Einstein-Hilbert to start with, first order Palatini, second order pure affine connection Eddington-Schroedinger.

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