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STAG Research Centre

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 [email protected] .

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.

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