M2-Branes With Half Supersymmetry

by Edward Witten (IAS Princeton)

Tuesday 18 Nov 2008, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

I consider multiple M2-branes at a product of A_n singularities, leaving unbroken half of the potential supersymmetry of the M2-branes. This leads to an exponentially large family of three-dimensional conformal field theories that can be described via gauge theory in several ways, and also have a gravitational dual description.