CPT

Calendar of Physics Talks Vienna

Examples and explicit construction of Hadamard states
Speaker:Claudio Dappiaggi (ESI) (Fakultät für Physik)
Abstract:im Rahmen des Seminars für Mathematische Physik
Date: Tue, 26.01.2010
Time: 14:15
Duration: 60 min
Location:Erwin Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock
Contact:J. Yngvason

The covariant *-product
Speaker:Dimitri Vassilevich (ABC Federal U.)
Abstract:It is well known that for a given Poisson structure one has infinitely many star products related through the Kontsevich gauge transformations. These gauge transformations have an infinite functional dimension (i.e., correspond to an infinite number of degrees of freedom per point of the base manifold). I show that on a symplectic manifold this freedom may be almost completely eliminated if one extends the star product to all tensor fields in a covariant way and impose some natural conditions on the tensor algebra. The remaining ambiguity either correspond to constant renormalizations to the symplectic structure, or to maps between classically equivalent field theory actions. I also discuss how one can introduce the Riemannian metric in this approach and the consequences of our results for noncommutative gravity theories.
Date: Thu, 28.01.2010
Time: 10:15
Duration: 60 min
Location:Schroedinger Seminar Room, University of Vienna
Contact:Daniel Grumiller