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Don Marolf
University of California Santa Barbara Spacetime wormholes, superselection sectors, and ensembles in quantum gravity: An Overview

Poster for Don Marolf's virtual seminar: Spacetime wormholes, superselection sectors, and ensembles in quantum gravity: An Overview

Don Marolf will review and summarize recent developments regarding spacetime wormholes in the gravitational path integral and their implications for the existence of a certain notion of “superselection sectors” in quantum gravity.  The existence of such sectors implies that, in certain contexts, we can think of quantum gravity as describing a statistical ensemble of theories.  The presentation will emphasize the conceptual structure and open questions.