28 September 2026 to 2 October 2026
Kavli IPMU
Asia/Tokyo timezone

The Knitting Mechanism: From Quantum Gravity to the Emergence of Our Universe

1 Oct 2026, 12:20
15m
Lecture Hall (Kavli IPMU)

Lecture Hall

Kavli IPMU

Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8583, Japan

Speaker

Yoshiyuki Watabiki

Description

We show how our Universe can emerge from symmetry breaking in a W_3 algebra whose components form a Jordan algebra. The underlying one-dimensional spaces with different flavors, or components, are knitted into a higher-dimensional spacetime through a knitting mechanism, with three-dimensional space emerging as part of this structure. Algebraically, the knitting mechanism is characterized by the emergence of Virasoro constraints, whose solutions give rise to the higher-dimensional space.

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