How can a continuous group like the Poincar{\'e} group be the symmetry group of a discrete point-set?
Speaker:
Rafael Sorkin, Perimeter Institute
Date and Time:
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 - 3:10pm to 4:00pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
We present evidence that (with probability 1) a Poisson sprinkling of Minkowski spacetime will not break the Poincar{\'e} symmetry-group down to a proper subgroup. To that end, we describe a proof from first principles of the spacetime 0-1 law which enters our arguments.
