Principal investigator: Jan Rosseel
PI's Host institution: Ruđer Bošković Institute
Project duration: 15.12.2023 to 14.12.2027
Project Summary
Motivated by potential applications to holography and non-perturbative aspects of quantum field theory, the project will construct novel non-relativistic supergravity theories in 10, 11 and 3 dimensions. To do this, we will use recent insights into Newton-Cartan geometry, a differential geometry framework to describe non-relativistic space-times, and its connection to Riemannian geometry via state-of-the-art non-relativistic limit procedures. In 10 and 11 dimensions, we will focus on maximal non-relativistic supergravity theories that can be viewed as low energy descriptions of non-relativistic string and M-theory. We will use these to study dualities and properties of p-branes in non-relativistic string theory. We will furthermore propose and investigate a supersymmetric matrix model dual of non-relativistic M-theory. In 3 dimensions, we will construct matter coupled, off-shell, non-relativistic supergravity theories and use them to obtain non-relativistic supersymmetric field theories on curved backgrounds. In the relativistic case, the latter form a class of theories in which expectation values of particular observables can be computed exactly using supersymmetric localization. We will investigate whether similar results hold in the non-relativistic case, in particular in supersymmetric field theories on curved manifolds that are non-relativistic analogues of toy models that appeared in studies of graphene.
Event Organization
Prof. dr. Glenn Barnich (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium) visited us from 30-01-2024 until 02-02-2024 and gave a talk on 01-02-2024, entitled "Lessons from discrete lightcone quantization for physics at null infinity".
Prof. dr. Nihat Sadik Deger (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Türkiye) visited us from 04-02-2024 until 11-02-2024 and gave on talk on 09-02-2024 on "3D massive gravity".
Our group organized the "4th Mini-Symposium on Geometry and Physics" from 03-06-2024 until 07-06-2024 at the Institut Ruđer Bošković (IRB) in Zagreb, in collaboration with the Field Theory and Mathematical Physics group of IRB. Participant details and the program can be found on http://thphys.irb.hr/phygeo2024.
Dr. Johannes Lahnsteiner (Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden) visited us from 22-10-2024 until 25-10-2024 and gave a talk on 23-10-2024, entitled "Towards an n-DLCQ/m-DLCQ correspondence".
School, Workshop and Conference Attendance
Jan Rosseel attended the ESI Thematic Programme on "Carrollian Physics and Holography" at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute (Vienna, Austria) from 02-04-2024 until 13-04-2024.
Jan Rosseel attended the kick-off meeting of the COST action "Fundamental challenges in theoretical physics" that took place at the University of Padova from 13-05-2024 until 15-05-2024. On 14-05-2024, he gave an invited talk on "Non-Lorentzian supergravity".
Jan Rosseel attended the Workshop on "Quantum Gravity, Strings and the Swampland" (Corfu, Greece, from 03-09-2024 until 09-09-2024), organized in the framework of the Corfu Summer Institute and gave a talk on "Carroll gravity from the conformal approach" on 04-09-2024.
Contact
Jan Rosseel
Email: Jan.Rosseel@irb.hr
Phone: +385 1 457 1634
Ruđer Bošković Institute
Bijenička cesta 54
10000 Zagreb,
Croatia
