Title: M-theory and G2 manifolds
Speaker: Katrin Becker, Texas A&M University
Date: Friday, August 22, 2014
Time: 02:00pm-3:30pm
Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center
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Abstract: This is an introduction to M-theory which is a theory of quantum gravity. It unifies general relativity with quantum field theory. M-theory includes besides all string theories eleven-dimensional supegravity. In a Kaluza and Klein approach to unification a four-dimensional theory can be obtained by assuming the additional seven dimensions to be small and compact. Unbroken supersymmetry requires that the seven dimensional manifold admits a G2 holonomy metric. We will discuss how these classical solutions become solutions of the quantum theory. This talk is intended to be pedagogical.