A Neumann Boundary for Gravity (The Quantum Spacetime Seminar Series)

by Dr Chethan Krishnan (Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Monday 19 Mar 2018, 11:30 → 12:30 Asia/Kolkata

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It was more than 40 years ago that a general Dirichlet boundary term was written down for general relativity by Brown and by Gibbons-Hawking. But a general Neumann boundary term seems to have never been constructed. We will argue that a natural way to do this is to covariantize the Neumann problem. When one does this, a Neumann boundary term emerges effortlessly. We will discuss a list of closely related ideas that arise naturally from Neumann, some in AdS and some in flat space.

Poster 2018_03_19_chethan_krishnan_1.pdf