27 June 2016 to 2 July 2016
Collège de France
Europe/Paris timezone

3D supersymmetric gauge theories and Hilbert series

28 Jun 2016, 10:30
25m
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre (Collège de France)

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre

Collège de France

11, place Marcelin-Berthelot, 75231 Paris cedex

Speaker

Stefano Cremonesi (King's college, London)

Description

The Hilbert series is a generating function that enumerates gauge invariant chiral operators of a supersymmetric field theory with four supercharges and an R-symmetry. In this talk I will explain how the counting of dressed ‘t Hooft monopole operators leads to a formula for the Hilbert series of a 3d N=2 gauge theory, which captures precious information about the chiral ring and the geometry of the moduli space of supersymmetric vacua of the theory.

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