Oct 3–7, 2022
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
America/Toronto timezone

Local Holography and corner symmetry: A paradigm for quantum gravity

Oct 4, 2022, 9:00 a.m.
1h
PI/1-100 - Theatre (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

PI/1-100 - Theatre

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

190

Speaker

Laurent Freidel (Perimeter Institute)

Description

In this introductory talk, I will present a new perspective about quantum gravity which is rooted deeply in a renewed understanding of local symmetries in Gravity that appears when we decompose gravitational systems into subsystems.
I will emphasize the central role of the corner symmetry group in capturing all the necessary data needed to glue back seamlessly quantum spacetime regions. I will present how the charge conservation associated with these symmetries encoded the dynamics of null surfaces.
Finally, I will also present how the representation theory of the corner symmetry arises and provides a representation of quantum geometry, and I will show that deformations of this symmetry can be the explanation for a fundamental planckian cut-off.
I will also mention how these symmetry groups reduce to asymptotic symmetry groups and control asymptotic gravitational dynamics when the entangling sphere is moved to infinity. If time permits, I will explain how these symmetries control asymptotic gravitational dynamics. And I will describe how they provide a new picture of the nature of quantum radiation.
Overall, this new paradigm allows to connect semi-classical gravitational physics, S-matrix theory, and non-perturbative quantum gravity techniques.
The talk's goal is to give an overall flavor of how these connections appear from an elementary understanding of symmetries.

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