The Geometry of Scattering Amplitudes

Informations projet

GeoScatAmp

N° de convention de subvention: 326494

Projet clôturé

Date de début 1 Septembre 2013

Date de fin 31 Août 2015

Financé au titre de

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Coût total € 221 606,40

Contribution de l’UE € 221 606,40

Coordonné par

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Royaume-Uni

Objectif

This project aims to explore an exciting discovery in mathematical physics, a new algebraic approach to perturbative gauge theory, the colour/kinematics duality, which also provides a connection between gauge theory and gravity. This duality says that the quantum-mechanical amplitudes for particle scattering in gauge theory depend on the momenta and polarisation of the scattered particles (kinematics) in a way that mirrors the dependence on the “colour”, the internal degree of freedom of gauge theories. Kinematics and colour appear, at first sight, in a very different manner, so this strongly suggests that the traditional methods of quantum field theory give us a very limited understanding of gauge theory amplitudes, and many recent results have strengthened this idea. The colour/kinematics duality has the potential to provide new connections between mathematical physics and other areas of mathematics, such as differential and algebraic geometry, twistor theory and graph theory. This proposal is perfectly suited to the expertise of the Mathematical Physics Group of the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, which is the host institution for this project, and to my own research experience across different subjects in mathematical physics, from general relativity and string theory to scattering amplitudes.

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• sciences naturelles › sciences physiques › mécanique relativiste
• sciences naturelles › mathématiques › mathématiques appliquées › physique mathématique
• sciences naturelles › sciences physiques › physique théorique › théorie des cordes
• sciences naturelles › mathématiques › mathématiques pures › mathématiques discrètes › théorie des graphes
• sciences naturelles › mathématiques › mathématiques pures › algèbre › géométrie algébrique

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Programme(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Thème(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF - Marie-Curie Action: "Intra-European fellowships for career development"

Appel à propositions

FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF
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Régime de financement

MC-IEF -

Coordinateur

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

• Contribution de l’UE: € 221 606,40
• Adresse: WELLINGTON SQUARE UNIVERSITY OFFICES ; OX1 2JD Oxford ; Royaume-Uni
• Région: South East (England) › Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire › Oxfordshire
• Type d’activité: Établissements d’enseignement supérieur ou secondaire
• Coût total: Aucune donnée