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Twistor theory for LQG

By Michael Eastwood

Appears in collection : Twistors and Loops Meeting in Marseille / Théorie des twisteurs et gravitation quantique à boucles

Twistor Theory was proposed in the late 1960s by Roger Penrose as a potential geometric unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics. During the past 50 years, there have been many mathematical advances and achievements in twistor theory. In physics, however, there are aspirations yet to be realised. Twistor Theory and Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) share a common background. Their aims are very much related. Is there more to it? This talk will sketch the geometry and symmetry behind twistor theory with the hope that links with LQG can be usefully strengthened. We believe there is something significant going on here: what could it be?

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Date of recording 02/09/2019
Date of publication 27/09/2019
Institution CIRM
Licence CC BY NC ND
Language English
Director(s) Guillaume Hennenfent
Format MP4

Citation data

DOI 10.24350/CIRM.V.19559703
Cite this video Eastwood, Michael (02/09/2019). Twistor theory for LQG. CIRM. Audiovisual resource. DOI: 10.24350/CIRM.V.19559703
URL https://dx.doi.org/10.24350/CIRM.V.19559703

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Differential Geometry

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