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Workshop: Mykola Dedushenko: Deformations of contact manifolds and CFT

Date: 2025-04-03

Time: 15:00 - 16:00

Speaker
Mykola Dedushenko, Simons Center

Abstract
In 2021 Kapranov proposed a definition of derived conformal algebra, a differential graded Lie algebra uniting conformal symmetries with deformations of conformal structure. This was done by passing to the ambitwistor space, which is a holomorphic contact manifold, whose contact geometry encodes the conformal geometry of spacetime. I will discuss how this may be useful for physics.