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Quantum Gravity from Causal Dynamical Triangulations

Renate Loll Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
May 23, 2013

PIRSA:13050055
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
The effective field theory of general relativity, running couplings and Asymptotic Safety

John Donoghue University of Massachusetts Amherst
May 09, 2013

PIRSA:13050003
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
Loop quantization of a weak-coupling limit of Euclidean gravity

Casey Tomlin Pennsylvania State University
April 25, 2013

PIRSA:13040104
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
The imaginary part of the gravitational action and black hole entropy

Yasha Neiman Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
April 18, 2013

PIRSA:13040106
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
Quantum causal dynamics without absolute space or time
April 11, 2013

PIRSA:13040083
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
Canonical gravity using unconstrained null initial data

Michael Reisenberger Universidad de la Republica Uruguay
March 28, 2013

PIRSA:13030092
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
A CDT Hamiltonian from Horava-Lifshitz gravity

Yuki Sato Nagoya University
March 14, 2013

PIRSA:13030091
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
A Self-consistent Model of the Black Hole Evaporation

Yuki Yokokura RIKEN
March 07, 2013

PIRSA:13030093
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
The black hole information paradox and its resolution

Ted Jacobson University of Maryland, College Park
January 17, 2013

PIRSA:13010021
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
Black holes: To be or not be, that is the question

Luis Garay Complutense University of Madrid
December 13, 2012

PIRSA:12120032
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
Renormalizing TGFTs: a 3d example on SU(2)

Sylvain Carrozza University of Burgundy
December 06, 2012

PIRSA:12120007
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
Canonical tensor models with local time

Naoki Sasakura Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
November 15, 2012

PIRSA:12110065
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology

Quantum Gravity from Causal Dynamical Triangulations

Renate Loll Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
May 23, 2013

PIRSA:13050055
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
By way of presenting some classic and many new results, my talk will indulge shamelessly in
advertising "Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT)" as a hands-on approach to nonperturbative quantum gravity that reaches where other approaches currently don't. After summarizing the rationale and basic ingredients of CDT quantum gravity and some of its key findings (like the emergence of a classical de Sitter space), I will focus on some very recent results: how we uncovered the presence of a second-order phase transition (so far unique in 4D quantum
gravity), news on the controversy between doing things the Lorentzian or the Euclidean way, and new results on the role of the preferred time slicing in CDT - all hopefully worth your while!
The effective field theory of general relativity, running couplings and Asymptotic Safety

John Donoghue University of Massachusetts Amherst
May 09, 2013

PIRSA:13050003
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
Effective field theory techniques allow reliable quantum calculations in general relativity at low energy. After a review of these techniques, I will discuss the attempts to define the gravitational corrections to running gauge couplings and to the couplings of gravity itself. I will also describe an attempt to understand the relation between the effective field theory and Asymptotic Safety in the region where they overlap.
Loop quantization of a weak-coupling limit of Euclidean gravity

Casey Tomlin Pennsylvania State University
April 25, 2013

PIRSA:13040104
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
I will describe recent work in collaboration with Adam Henderson, Alok Laddha, and Madhavan Varadarajan on the loop quantization of a certain $G_{\mathrm{N}}\rightarrow 0$ limit of Euclidean gravity, introduced by Smolin. The model allows one to test various quantization choices one is faced with in loop quantum gravity, but in a simplified setting. The main results are the construction of finite-triangulation Hamiltonian and diffeomorphism constraint operators whose continuum limits can be evaluated in a precise sense, such that the quantum Dirac algebra of constraints closes nontrivially and free of anomalies. The construction relies heavily on techniques of Thiemann's QSD treatment, and lessons learned applying such techniques to the loop quantization of parameterized scalar field theory and the diffeomorphism constraint in loop quantum gravity. I will also briefly discuss the status of the quantum constraint algebra in full LQG, and how some of the lessons learned from the present model may guide us in that setting.
The imaginary part of the gravitational action and black hole entropy

Yasha Neiman Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
April 18, 2013

PIRSA:13040106
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
I present a candidate for a new derivation of black hole entropy. The key observation is that the action of General Relativity in bounded regions has an imaginary part, arising from the boundary term. The formula for this imaginary part is closely related to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formula, and coincides with it for certain classes of regions. This remains true in the presence of matter, and generalizes appropriately to Lovelock gravity. The imaginary part of the action is a versatile notion, requiring neither stationarity nor any knowledge about asymptotic infinity. Thus, it may provide a handle on quantum gravity in finite and dynamical regions. I derive the above results, make connections with standard approaches to black hole entropy, and speculate on the meaning of it all. Implications for loop quantum gravity are also discussed.
Quantum causal dynamics without absolute space or time
April 11, 2013

PIRSA:13040083
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
I will describe a discrete model of spacetime which is quantum-mechanical, causal, and background free. The kinematics is described by networks whose vertices are labelled with arrows. These networks can be evolved forwards (or backwards) in time by using unitary replacement rules. The arrow structure permits one to define dynamics without using an absolute time parameter. Based on arXiv:1201.2489.
Canonical gravity using unconstrained null initial data

Michael Reisenberger Universidad de la Republica Uruguay
March 28, 2013

PIRSA:13030092
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
A CDT Hamiltonian from Horava-Lifshitz gravity

Yuki Sato Nagoya University
March 14, 2013

PIRSA:13030091
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
Causal Dynamical Triangulations” (CDT) is a lattice theory where aspects of quantum gravity can be studied. Two-dimensional CDT can be solved analytically and the continuum (quantum) Hamiltonian obtained.
In this talk I will show that this continuum Hamiltonian is the one obtained by quantizing two-dimensional projectable Horava-Lifshitz gravity.
A Self-consistent Model of the Black Hole Evaporation

Yuki Yokokura RIKEN
March 07, 2013

PIRSA:13030093
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
We construct a self-consistent model which describes a black hole from formation to evaporation including the back reaction from the Hawking radiation. In the case where a null shell collapses, at the beginning the evaporation occurs, but it stops eventually, and a horizon and singularity appear. On the other hand, in the generic collapse process of a continuously distributed null matter, the black hole evaporates completely without forming a macroscopically large horizon nor singularity. We also find a stationary solution in the heat bath, which can be regarded as a normal thermodynamic object. (hep-th: 1302.4733)
The black hole information paradox and its resolution

Ted Jacobson University of Maryland, College Park
January 17, 2013

PIRSA:13010021
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
Both AdS/CFT duality and more general reasoning from quantum gravity point to a rich collection of boundary observables that always evolve unitarily. The physical quantum gravity states described by these observables must be solutions of the spatial diffeomorphism and Wheeler-deWitt constraints, which implies that the state space does not factorize into a tensor product of localized degrees of freedom. The "firewall" argument that unitarity of black hole evaporation is incompatible with a regular near horizon region is based on such a factorization, hence is not applicable in quantum gravity. A version of black hole complementarity resolves the apparent conflict. (I will also discuss doubts and questions.)
Black holes: To be or not be, that is the question

Luis Garay Complutense University of Madrid
December 13, 2012

PIRSA:12120032
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
I will review some problems of the black hole paradigm and explore other
possibilities for the final state of stellar collapse other than an evaporating
black hole. In particular I will use the so-called transplanckian problem as a
guide in this search for a compelling scenario for the evaporation of
ultracompact objects.
Renormalizing TGFTs: a 3d example on SU(2)

Sylvain Carrozza University of Burgundy
December 06, 2012

PIRSA:12120007
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
I will recall the main motivations for considering spin foam models in their Group Field Theory (GFT) versions, which are quantum field theories defined on group manifolds. As for any other quantum field theory, a fully consistent definition of the latter must involve renormalization. I will briefly review a specific class of GFTs, called tensorial, for which progress in this direction has recently been possible. A new just-renormalizable model, in three dimensions and on the SU(2) group, will be presented. Interestingly, it includes the geometric constraint of the Boulatov model, and might as such be related to Euclidean quantum gravity in three dimensions. Furthermore, this opens the way to a similar analysis of current 4d gravity spin foam models.
Canonical tensor models with local time

Naoki Sasakura Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
November 15, 2012

PIRSA:12110065
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
Tensor models are generalization of matrix models, and are studied as discrete models for quantum gravity for more than two-dimensions. Among them, the rank-three tensor models can be interpreted as theories of dynamical fuzzy spaces, and they generally have the feature of
respecting symmetries. In this talk, after briefly reviewing some results on Euclidean models such as spontaneous generation of fuzzy spaces and Euclidean general relativity respecting the diffeomorphism symmetry on them, I will present a way to introduce “local” time to the rank-three tensor models by constructing “local” Hamiltonians. The consistency among the multiple ways of local time evolutions is guaranteed by the on-shell closure of the constraint algebra among the
local Hamiltonians and the symmetry generators of the tensor models. The constraint algebra is shown to approach the DeWitt algebra in a formal continuum limit. I will also discuss the two-fold uniqueness of the local Hamiltonians, and will briefly show some preliminary results on the quantization.

Title	Speaker(s)	Date	Talk Type	Info
Quantum Gravity from Causal Dynamical Triangulations	Renate Loll	2013-05-23	Scientific Series	View details
The effective field theory of general relativity, running couplings and Asymptotic Safety	John Donoghue	2013-05-09	Scientific Series	View details
Loop quantization of a weak-coupling limit of Euclidean gravity	Casey Tomlin	2013-04-25	Scientific Series	View details
The imaginary part of the gravitational action and black hole entropy	Yasha Neiman	2013-04-18	Scientific Series	View details
Quantum causal dynamics without absolute space or time		2013-04-11	Scientific Series	View details
Canonical gravity using unconstrained null initial data	Michael Reisenberger	2013-03-28	Scientific Series	View details
A CDT Hamiltonian from Horava-Lifshitz gravity	Yuki Sato	2013-03-14	Scientific Series	View details
A Self-consistent Model of the Black Hole Evaporation	Yuki Yokokura	2013-03-07	Scientific Series	View details
The black hole information paradox and its resolution	Ted Jacobson	2013-01-17	Scientific Series	View details
Black holes: To be or not be, that is the question	Luis Garay	2012-12-13	Scientific Series	View details
Renormalizing TGFTs: a 3d example on SU(2)	Sylvain Carrozza	2012-12-06	Scientific Series	View details
Canonical tensor models with local time	Naoki Sasakura	2012-11-15	Scientific Series	View details

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Quantum Gravity from Causal Dynamical Triangulations

The effective field theory of general relativity, running couplings and Asymptotic Safety

Loop quantization of a weak-coupling limit of Euclidean gravity

The imaginary part of the gravitational action and black hole entropy

Quantum causal dynamics without absolute space or time

Canonical gravity using unconstrained null initial data

A CDT Hamiltonian from Horava-Lifshitz gravity

A Self-consistent Model of the Black Hole Evaporation

The black hole information paradox and its resolution

Black holes: To be or not be, that is the question

Renormalizing TGFTs: a 3d example on SU(2)

Canonical tensor models with local time

Quantum Gravity from Causal Dynamical Triangulations

The effective field theory of general relativity, running couplings and Asymptotic Safety

Loop quantization of a weak-coupling limit of Euclidean gravity

The imaginary part of the gravitational action and black hole entropy

Quantum causal dynamics without absolute space or time

Canonical gravity using unconstrained null initial data

A CDT Hamiltonian from Horava-Lifshitz gravity

A Self-consistent Model of the Black Hole Evaporation

The black hole information paradox and its resolution

Black holes: To be or not be, that is the question

Renormalizing TGFTs: a 3d example on SU(2)

Canonical tensor models with local time