Thomas Mertens (Ghent University), Quantum groups in lower-dimensional gravity models

Tuesday 17 Feb 2026, 11:15 → 12:15 Europe/Stockholm

Albano 3: 6228 - Mega (22 seats) (Albano Building 3)

In this talk I will discuss recent progress in uncovering the presence of quantum group symmetries in both 2d and 3d gravity models. This structure is then utilized to better understand various aspects of gravitational models, such as the structure of boundary correlation functions, and edge states. Largely based on 2507.13873 and 2505.00501.