2015 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2015

Gravity and dust in 2+1 dimensions

18 Jun 2015, 10:15

15m

CCIS L1-047 (University of Alberta)

Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant) Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT) R1-5 Quantum Gravity and Quantum Cosmology (DTP) / Gravité quantique et cosmologie quantique (DPT)

Speaker

Dr Jonathan Ziprick (urn:Google)

Description

We study a pressureless dust coupled to gravity with an arbitrary cosmological constant $\mathrm{\Lambda }$ in 2+1 dimensions. This theory has interesting classical solutions and yet remains simple enough to explore the non-perturbative quantization of gravitational degrees of freedom. On the classical side we find the Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli black hole as a static solution when $\mathrm{\Lambda }<0$, and for $\mathrm{\Lambda }=0$ we find solutions with moving apparent horizons. We are able to quantize a sector of the classical solution space, and look in particular at the horizon operator which measures the location of apparent horizons. Notably, this operator is found to have a non-zero variance on coherent states, implying that apparent horizons are subject to quantum fluctuations.

Presentation materials

Slides

CAP2015_slides_Ziprick.pdf