Speaker
Madhavan Varadarajan
Description
Classical gravitational evolution in time admits an elegant re-expression in terms of of certain generalizations of Lie derivatives with respect to a triple of spatial vector fields called the Electric Shift. This property of classical evolution naturally
dovetails into a new construction of a quantum dynamics for Euclidean gravity within the canonical quantization approach known as Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). In my talk I will discuss these new results, their import and avenues for further exploration.
