11–22 Aug 2014
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

The Physics of Sphere Partition Functions and M2-brane Surface Operators

11 Aug 2014, 10:30
1h
4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

CERN

110
Show room on map

Speaker

Jaume Gomis (Perimeter Institute)

Description

We will characterize the physical content of the partition function of conformal and superconformal field theories on a sphere. These results will be used to give a complete microscopic gauge theory description of arbitrary M2-branes ending on M5-branes wrapped on a Riemann surface.

Presentation materials