Sep 22 – 25, 2019
Turin
Europe/Rome timezone

Causal set theory and quantum fields

Sep 24, 2019, 3:40 PM
20m
Turin

Turin

Monday, 23 Sept. * Aula Magna, Dip. di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, Via Accademia Albertina, 13 * Tuesday, 24 Sept.- Wednesday, 25 Sept. * Aula Magna, Palazzo del Rettorato, Via Verdi, 8 * @Università degli Studi di Torino

Speaker

Dr Marco Letizia (University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute)

Description

In this talk I will discuss the properties of quantum fields in causal set theory, a theory of quantum gravity in which nonlocality emerges as a consequence of discreteness and local Lorentz invariance. In particular I will present some recent results regarding the computation of entanglement entropy in this context and consider some comparisons with other models of quantum spacetime with particular attention to the fate of Lorentz symmetries.

Primary author

Dr Marco Letizia (University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute)

Co-authors

Dr Alessio Belenchia (Queen's University Belfast) Dr Dionigi Benincasa Prof. Stefano Liberati (SISSA)

Presentation materials