An Introduction to Causal Fermion Systems with a focus on information theoretic aspects

Dr. Claudio Paganini from the faculty of mathematics of the university of Regensburg:

“I will give an introduction to Causal Fermion Systems (CFS), a leading candidate for a unified theory of physics.

CFS provides a rigorous mathematical framework that merges the language of Quantum Theory and General Relativity in a novel way. This is achieved by encoding all the properties of our physical world in the texture of correlations between the fundamental (fermionic) degrees of freedom.

The systematic study of spacetime correlations enables an identification of points in a classical spacetime with elements in an operator manifold. The causal structure as well as the physical principles  governing the dynamics in the theory are recovered from the eigenvalues of these operators. On the level of an effective description of our reality in terms of established theories, CFS gives rise to the emergence of the (causal) structure of spacetime and is at the origin of  the fundamental interactions of the standard model of particle physics.

The goal is to provide you with a qualitative understanding of how CFS encodes a physical system in terms of the two point correlation. I will also provide a sketch for a novel proposal for observables in CFS and how this might lead us to a full ontology for the theory.”

The talk will be hybrid: it will take place at ZARM in meeting room 1280 and one can join online via Zoom
https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/4651981280
ID: 465 198 1280
PW: gravi