Sep 2 – 6, 2019
Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne
Europe/Paris timezone

Non-ultralocality, affine Gaudin models and Chern-Simons theory

Sep 4, 2019, 11:00 AM
30m
C101

C101

Speaker

Benoit Vicedo (University of York)

Description

Non-ultralocality is a long-standing open problem in classical integrable field theory which has precluded the first-principle quantisation of many important models. I will review a recent proposal for dealing with this issue, which relates it to the study of Gaudin models associated with affine Kac-Moody algebras. I will then go on to discuss its relation to another very recent proposal of Costello and Yamazaki who's starting point is a four-dimensional variant of Chern-Simons theory.

Primary author

Benoit Vicedo (University of York)

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