Lorenz Eberhardt (Physics)
IAS

Title: Partition functions in 3d gravity

Abstract: I will discuss 3d gravity with negative cosmological constant via canonical quantization. This formulation is in many ways complementary to the more often discussed path integral in Euclidean gravity. One can use canonical quantization to compute partition functions of gravity on topologies that do not admit classical solutions to Einsteins field equations which gives rise to interesting challenges for the gravitational...

Edgar Shaghoulian (Physics)
University of Pennsylvania

Torsten Ensslin (Physics)
MPA Garching

Sven Hirsch (Mathematics)
Duke University