Organised by: Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig
Abstract
4D Quantum
field theories are somehow squeezed between triviality and the
Millennium Prize challenge. To get a little insight we relax a key
condition on QFT – Poincaré or Euclidian invariance -- and study scalar
quantum fields on noncommutative geometries. This gives the possibility
of a topological expansion. The problem turns out to be tractable in
every topological sector, and for the spherical sector the triviality
problem disappears in 4D. In dimension 0 the control of all topologies
is within reach, and remarkable connections to complex algebraic
geometry and to enumerative geometry are found.
Keywords: quantum field theory; topological recursion