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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Math 295 - Mathematics Colloquium

Nitu Kitchloo

Johns Hopkins University

Symmetries of Symplectic category and a conjecture of Kontsevich

Abstract:

Motivated by perturbative computations of Feynman integrals, Kontsevich has conjectured that a certain group known as the Grothendieck-Teichmuller group acts on the moduli space of Field theories. Moreover he has explicitly described this action in certain examples. We first describe a stable context for this question, which can be interpreted as inverting free Bosonic field theories. We then show that a quotient of the GT group acts on the stable object in agreement with computations made by Kontsevich. We will try to make this talk as self contained as possible.

Hosts: Cristian Popescu and Justin Roberts

March 19, 2015

4:00 PM

AP&M 6402

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