Speaker
Victor Godet (Sorbonne University, France)
Date & Time
Wed, 06 August 2025, 15:30 to 17:00
Venue
Emmy Noether Seminar Room
Resources
Abstract
I will discuss the canonical quantization of quantum cosmology on toroidal universes. The wavefunctions are automorphic forms, and the Wheeler-DeWitt equation reduces to a dynamical equation on moduli space, so quantum cosmology can be viewed as “automorphic dynamics”. This perspective offers new insights into the Hartle-Hawking state and reveals intriguing connections to number theory.