Seminar series
Date
Tue, 18 Feb 2025
13:00
13:00
Location
L5
Speaker
Leron Borsten
Organisation
University of Hertfordshire
We’ll begin by introducing homotopy algebras (assuming no background) and their intimate connection to quantum field theory, with a briefly summary of some applications: scattering amplitude recursion relations, colour-kinematics duality, and generalised asymptotic observables. We’ll then introduce (deformed) Alexandrov–Kontsevich–Schwarz–Zaboronsky theories as the paradigmatic example of this framework, before developing their applications to gravity in two, three and four dimensions.