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Calendar of Physics Talks Vienna
| New Methods for Gauge Theories |
| Speaker: | Thomas Strobl (Lyon U.) |
| Abstract: | The established method for the construction or understanding of gauge theories consist in the gauging of a rigid symmetry group where for each
symmetry parameter one extends the original functional by one appropriate gauge field. We introduce drastically new alternatives to this:
1. Often it is sufficient to introduce a smaller number of gauge fields only; this permits to gauge some infinite-dimensional rigid symmetries
with a finite number of gauge fields.
2. The condition of a rigid symmetry can be relaxed in the sense of making it change from point to point, permitting to gauge also rigid Lie
groupoid symmetries
3. There are situation where one can gauge even in the absence of a symmetry.
We attempt to keep the presentation rather elementary, assuming only some basic knowledge of differential geometry.
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| Date: | Wed, 10.09.2014 |
| Time: | 10:30 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | SEM 136 (Freihaus, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10), Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology |
| Contact: | Daniel Grumiller |
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