by
Felix Rudolph(Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich)
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Europe/Stockholm
Nordita 132:028
Nordita 132:028
Description
The arena of quantum gravity can be constructed as a doubled geometry
which incorporates principles of classical and quantum mechanics,
general relativity and string theory. This doubled space can be viewed
as the phase space of a string or as the doubled target space that
appears in Double Field Theory. Extended symmetries such as the O(d,d)
group associated with T-duality of the string are an integral part of
the construction. Such a setup has been dubbed "Born Geometry" and is
an extension of Riemannian geometry to capture some features of
quantum gravity.
I will give a pedagogical introduction to this doubled geometry which
can be formulated as a para-Hermitian space with a generalized
metric. I will discuss what geometric structures appear and present a
unique torsionfree connection for Born geometry in analogy to the
Levi-Civita connection for Riemannian geometry.