Seminar series
Date
Tue, 05 Nov 2024
13:00
13:00
Location
L2
Speaker
Andrea Mondino
Organisation
Oxford
In the talk, I will start by recalling some basics of optimal transport and how it can be used to define Ricci curvature lower bounds for singular spaces, in a synthetic sense. Then, I will present some joint work with De Luca-De Ponti and Tomasiello, where we show that some singular spaces, naturally showing up in gravity compactifications (namely, Dp-branes), enter the aforementioned setting of non-smooth spaces satisfying Ricci curvature lower bounds in a synthetic sense. Time permitting, I will discuss some applications to the Kaluza-Klein spectrum.