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Deformation Theory Seminar

Wednesday, October 9, 2002 - 2:00pm

Martin Bojowald

Penn State U

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C4

4C$ will be the canonical room for the rest of the Fall

A discussion of joint work with Thomas Strobl on solutions of Poisson Sigma Models with a special emphasis on the Poisson geometry involved. Poisson Sigma Models have been introduced as a unified description of gravity, Yang-Mills and various other theories in two space-time dimensions. After a review of their formulation we discuss new results about particular solutions and the relation to Poisson geometry.