TH Thursday Seminar

Non-commutative geometry and physics: a review for non-experts

by J.F. BARBON (CERN-TH)

→ Europe/Zurich
TH Auditorium (CERN)

TH Auditorium

CERN

Description
I describe the basic ideas in noncommutative field theories and their main physical properties at an intuitive level. Then I discuss some applications of this formalism to the study of the large-N limit of ordinary Yang-Mills theories and to the physics of the Quantum Hall Effect.