Unification of Conformal and Fuzzy Gravities with Internal Interactions @DIASDublin

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Speaker: George Zoupanos (NTU, Athens)
Abstract: The Unification of Conformal and Fuzzy gravities with Internal Interactions is based on the following two facts. The first is that the tangent group of a curved manifold and the manifold itself do not necessarily have the same dimensions. The second is that both gravitational theories considered here have been formulated in a gauge theoretic way. We would like to start by reviewing the gauge theoretic approach of Einstein gravity. Then we will review the construction of the Conformal Gravity and the Noncommutative (Fuzzy) Gravity using the gauge theoretic framework. Finally based on an extension of the four-dimensional tangent group we will present the Unification of both Gravities with the Internal Interactions.

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