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SUMMARY:Lorenz Eberhardt (IAS\, Princeton)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/AnLy/26/">So
 lving 3d Gravity with Virasoro TQFT</a>\nby Lorenz Eberhardt (IAS\, Prince
 ton) as part of AnLy Strings and Fields online seminars\n\n\nAbstract\nI w
 ill explain a proposal which relates three-dimensional quantum gravity in 
 AdS3 to a particular 3d TQFT that we refer to as ``Virasoro TQFT''. This r
 elation gives a precise meaning to the standard folklore that pure 3d grav
 ity is related to two copies of SL(2\,R) Chern-Simons theory. I will discu
 ss that replacing SL(2\,R) Chern-Simons theory by Virasoro TQFT solves sev
 eral known problems in the correspondence. The relation provides a computa
 tionally useful tool to study partition functions of 3d gravity. The talk 
 is based o\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/AnLy/26/
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