String Theory seminar - Cyril Closset Seminar
- Time:
- 13:00
- Date:
- 27 February 2019
- Venue:
- Building 54, room 8031
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Brandon Robinson at b.j.robinson@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Title: Gauge theories phases of 5d SCFTs: an M-theory/type IIA perspective
Abstract: I will revisit the well-known construction of 5d SCFTs from M-theory on a CY3 singularity. Upon massive deformation, such 5d SCFTs are often expected to have 5d N=1 supersymmetric gauge theory descriptions at low energy. I will present a new way to study these 5d ``gauge theory phases'' systematically using type-IIA string theory, and I will comment on the phenomenon of "UV duality." Along the way, I will discuss some slightly subtle properties of the 5d N=1 Coulomb branch prepotential.
Speaker information
Cyril Closset, Oxford.