Speaker
Thomas Strobl
(Claude Bernard University Lyon, France)
Description
We first review how one can turn the standard sigma model in
to a gauge theory and under what conditions. This leads us to the notion
of singular Riemannian foliations (SRFs) and equivalence of gauge
theories leads to Morita equivalence of SRFs. This leads one looking at
the octonionic singular foliation on R^16. In this talk we provide a Lie
groupoid generating this foliation and show that it has the minimal
possible dimension.
