22–27 Sept 2024
Maison des Congrès
Europe/Zurich timezone

Information geometry and the renormalization group

23 Sept 2024, 14:30
20m
Maison des Congrès

Maison des Congrès

Chem. des Grandes Isles 7, 1865 Ormont-Dessus Les Diablerets Switzerland

Speaker

Stefan Floerchinger (University of Jena)

Description

The talk reviews how a geometric approach to information theory and the functional renormalization group are closely connected. Information geometry defines distances on spaces of probability distributions, as well as further differential geometric structure like connections or curvature. In the context of field theories one can define on that basis geometrical structure on the space of theories which might help to better understand renormalization group flows.

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