Towards the path integral for gravity

開催日時

2021/08/03(木)16:00〜17:00

開催場所

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講演者

Prof. Neil Turok( The University of Edinburgh )

言語

日本語

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skengo-AT-post.kek.jp


概要

We show how Feynman’s path integral for quantum mechanical theories may be defined without a Wick rotation to imaginary time. Instead, we employ analytic continuation (and Cauchy’s theorem) in the complexified space of paths being integrated over. We outline a new existence proof for real time path integrals and describe physical applications, from nonrelativistic quantum mechanics to interference patterns in radio astronomy and caustics in Yang-Mills theories. Our target is gravity: I outline the remaining challenges.