Speaker
Prof.
Fernando Barbero
(IEM-CSIC, Madrid)
Description
The canonical quantization of gravity relies on its Hamiltonian formulation in an appropriate phase space. A geometric approach to the Hamiltonian treatment of singular field theories is very useful, especially when the spacetime manifold has boundaries. In the present talk I will quickly review these geometric methods, illustrate how they work with a very quick derivation of the real Ashtekar formulation, and discuss the need to carefully characterize the field spaces used to formulate the theory.
Primary author
Prof.
Fernando Barbero
(IEM-CSIC, Madrid)
