Theorie-Palaver

Jan. 18, 2011 at 2:30 p.m. in Lorentz-Raum (05-127)

Upalaparna Banerjee

Federico Gasparotto

Pouria Mazloumi

Yong Xu

Lattice Quantum Gravity
Dario Benedetti (Albert-Einstein-Institut, Golm)


Of the various approaches that attempted a non-perturbative quantization of gravity along the lines of standard quantum field theories on a lattice, Causa Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) seem the most successful to date. In this talk, I will review the construction and major results of CDT, I will present some recent results, and I will highlight possible connections to asymptotic safety and to Horava-Lifshitz gravity.