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String Theory seminar - Karapet Mkrtchyan Seminar

Time:
13:00
Date:
29 November 2023
Venue:
Building 54, room 8031

For more information regarding this seminar, please email David Turton at [email protected] .

Event details

Title: Democratic Lagrangians and where they come from

Abstract: I will summarize the work of the last few years, culminating at covariant Lagrangian formulation of arbitrary abelian interactions of chiral p-forms and democratic (treating electric and magnetic degrees of freedom on equal footing) formulation of abelian interactions of arbitrary p-forms in arbitrary dimensions. This includes manifestly covariant and SO(2) duality invariant Lagrangians of all duality-symmetric electrodynamics in 3+1 dimensions and democratic type II Supergravities in 10d. I will also demonstrate a derivation for these Lagrangians from simple topological theories in one higher dimension.

Speaker information

Karapet Mkrtchyan , Imperial.

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