Speaker
Hyun Seok Yang
(GIST)
Description
We review the Chern-Simons gauge theory formulation of three-dimensional gravity. Thurston’s conjecture proved by Perelman states that three-manifolds with a given topology have a canonical decomposition into eight manifolds with high symmetry—the so-called Thurston geometries. We address how to formulate the Thurston geometries in terms of the Chern-Simons gauge theory and discuss their boundary conformal field theories.
Primary author
Hyun Seok Yang
(GIST)
