Oct 12 – 15, 2021
IHES
Europe/Paris timezone

Complex Metrics on Spacetime

Oct 13, 2021, 5:00 PM
30m
Marilyn and James Simons Conference Center (IHES)

Marilyn and James Simons Conference Center

IHES

35, route de Chartres 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette (France)

Speaker

Edward Witten (remote) (IAS, Princeton)

Description

For a variety of reasons, it seems necessary to consider complex saddle points in the "Euclidean'' approach to black hole thermodynamics. But what class of complex saddle points is physically sensible? That will be the subject of this talk.

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