Algebraic Geometry and Feynman Amplitudes

Fri, 26/02/2010
16:30
Professor Pierre Cartier (IHES) (IHES) Colloquia Add to calendar L2
We shall report on the use of algebraic geometry for the calculation of Feynman amplitudes (work of Bloch, Brown, Esnault and Kreimer). Or how to combine Grothendieck's motives with high energy physics in an unexpected way, radically distinct from string theory.