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Deformation Theory Seminar

Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 2:00pm

Susama Agarwala

JHU

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

Agarwala will arrive mid morning

I will review a paper by Connes and Kriemer, where they construct a Hopf algebra structure on \phi3, d=6 quantum field theory. This allows them to give the Feynman diagrams of this theory a Lie algebra structure. Finally they show that the problem of renormalization via dimentional regularization can be reformulated in terms of Birkhoff decomposition around the pole of z=6.