26–30 May 2026
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Europe/Sofia timezone
Conference in memory of Ivan Todorov

Virasoro coadjoint orbits and Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity

29 May 2026, 09:00
50m
Session chair: V. Petkova ; Location: Hall "Prof. Marin Drinov", BAS

Session chair: V. Petkova ; Location: Hall "Prof. Marin Drinov", BAS

Speaker

Anton Alekseev

Description

Virasoro coadjoint orbits are infinite dimensional symplectic spaces which admit classification due to Lazutkin-Pankratova, Segal, Kirillov, Witten etc. Inspired by works on Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, we consider elliptic and exceptional Virasoro orbits, and we establish their relation to moduli spaces of singular hyperbolic metrics on the disk.

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