PSI 2018/2019 - Explorations in Quantum Gravity (Dupuis)

Application to binary mergers: survey of results 

Brief introduction to gravitational wave detection 

Perturbations of Kerr black holes

Black hole perturbation theory

The Flatness constraint - the physical Hibert space

The Gauss constraint - spinnetwork states

Kinematical Hibert space for a subsystem: edge; length operator; Kinematical Hilbert space for a graph.

Kinematical Hibert space for a subsystem: edge

Dirac quantization of 3D gravity: basic variables, holonomy and flux.

Interpretation of the constraints - Constraint algebra

First order formalism of 3D gravity: action and symmetries. Cannonical analysis.

Actions for gravity: the Einstein-Hilbert action  - 3D gravity - first order formalism of 3D gravity (triads and connections)