From planar diagrams to two-dimensional quantum gravity

by Eduard Brezin (École normale supérieure, Paris)

Thursday 27 Oct 2022, 14:30 → 16:30 Europe/Rome

Aula Amaldi (Dipartimento di Fisica - Ed. G Marconi)

Seminari contributi scientifici Parisi

In this second seminar of the series "The interdisciplinary contribution of Giorgio Parisi to theoretical physics" Eduard Brezin will talk about the paper: Planar Diagrams, authors: Brezin, Itzkynson, Parisi, Zuber; Commun. Math. Phys. 59, 35 (1978). The seminar will span from planar diagrams  to two-dimensional quantum gravity: a pedagogical (blackboard) account  of some attempts  going back to half a century.