Quantum Gravity
The aim of the course is to give you an overview of the Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) and Spinfoam (SF) approaches of Quantum gravity as well as an introduction to some other approaches to Quantum Gravity.
Course outline
Tuesday, April 6 - Carlo Rovelli - Space and Time - Zoom link and schedule
Tuesday, April 6 - Carlo's slides
Tuesday, April 6 - Carlo's video
Tuesday, April 6 - Carlo Rovelli - Space and Time - Reference 1
Tuesday, April 6 - Carlo Rovelli - Space and Time - Reference 2 (p. 3 -23)
Tuesday, April 6 - Lee Smolin - Why Quantum Gravity? - Zoom link and schedule
Tuesday, April 6 - Recording of Lee's lecture
Tuesday, April 6 - Lee Smolin - Why Quantum Gravity? - Reference
Wednesday, April 7 - Tutorial 1 - Constrained systems and Yang-Mills theory
Wednesday, April 7 - Tutorial 1 - submission
Tutorial 1 - Solutions
Week 1 - lecture notes - Constrained systems and the Dirac program.
Thursday, April 8 - video 1 - constrained systems
Friday, April 9 - video 2 - the Dirac program
Week 1 feedback or questions?
Week 2 - Lecture notes - Actions for gravity - Canonical analysis of 3D gravity 1st order action - Holonomy-flux variables
Monday, April 12 - video 3 - First order formalism of 3d gravity
Tuesday, April 13 - video 4 - Canonical analysis and holonomy-flux variables
Wednesday, April 14 - Tutorial 2 - Symmetries/constraints - Toward the notion of fluxes
Wednesday, April 14 - tutorial 2 - submission
Wednesday, April 14 - tutorial 2 - solutions
Thursday, April 15 - Marc's slides
Thursday, April 15 - Recording of Marc's lecture
Thursday, April 15 - Marc Geiller - Covariant phase space formalism - Reference
Thursday, April 15 - Marc Geiller - Edge modes - Reference 1
Thursday, April 15 - Marc Geiller - Edge modes - Reference 2
Thursday, April 15 - Florian's slides
Thursday, April 15 - Recording of Florian's lecture
Thursday, April 15 - Florian Girelli - Discretization of 3d gravity - Reference
Friday, April 15 - Recording of the discussion on holography with Laurent
Week 2 feedback or questions?
HW1 - 3 articles
HW1 - article 1
HW1 - Submission part 1 - April 14th
HW1 - article 2
HW2 - Choose your favourite guest lecture and write a blog post!
Reference for constrained systems - Wipf ('93)
Reference for constrained systems and Dirac's program - Matschull ('95)
Bianca Dittrich's lecture notes (PSI 2014-15)
Canonical Analysis of gravity in the tetrad-connection formalism - Baros e Sa ('00)
BH entropy - Strominger ('97)
Tetrad/connection vs metric formulation - Paoli and Special ('18)