Owen Gwilliam

Abstract: The notion of a factorization algebra aims to formalize the structure possessed by the observables of a quantum field theory. In this talk, I'll introduce this notion with a running example given by the beta-gamma system, a very simple...

Factorization algebras are local-to-global objects that play a role in quantum field theory akin to the role of sheaves in geometry: they conveniently organize complicated information. In the talk I will introduce this notion, give some concrete...