Workshop
Quantume Fields and Geometric Topology
- Kishore Marathe (CUNY, New York, USA)
Abstract
In recent years, several relations between quantization of gauge fields and geometric topological invariants have been discovered. These TQFT results may be regarded as toy models for physically significant QFTs with non-trivial dynamics. We speculate that the loop variable formulation of gravity may provide a suitable platform for similar calculations. The results can be considered as furnishing a toy model for quantum gravity.