Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications

Lectures are aimed at an overview of Palatini–Cartan gravity (the formulation of general relativity in terms of Cartan’s frames, instead of metric tensors, and of independent connections) and what its boundary symplectic structure is. After an overview of the BV-BFV formalism (a cohomological method to deal with symmetries and constraints), I will discuss how to implement it in Palatini–Cartan gravity. As an extension of this, I will also describe the corner structure. Additionally, I will discuss relations with Einstein–Hilbert gravity.

Schedule (Beijing Time):
April 22: 09:00 - 10:30, Jingzhai 105
April 23: 09:00 - 12:00 with breaks, Jingzhai 105
April 28: 14:00 - 17:00 with breaks, Jingzhai 218