9–11 May 2016
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Classification of 4d rank 1 N=2 SCFTs

10 May 2016, 18:00
15m
G26 (Benedum Hall)

G26

Benedum Hall

parallel talk Tools & QFT

Speaker

Matteo Lotito (University of Cincinnati)

Description

We present a classification of 4d rank 1 $\mathcal{N}=2$ Superconformal Field Theories (SCFTs), based on a geometrical analysis of the Coulomb Branches of these theories, i.e., their moduli space of vacua.

Supersymmetry and the residual $U(1)$ gauge symmetry on the Coulomb Branch allow us to constrain the geometries that can be consistently interpreted as low energy moduli space of a SCFT.

The same scale invariant geometry can correspond to multiple SCFTs, differing by the structure of their flavor symmetry, realized in the low energy description as different matter content.

Our analysis consists in starting with scale invariant Coulomb Branch geometries and classify the possible deformations of such geometries, thus determining the allowed set of rank-1 $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs with their corresponding flavor algebras.

Author

Matteo Lotito (University of Cincinnati)

Co-authors

Dr Mario Martone (University of Cincinnati) Prof. Philip Argyres (University of Cincinnati) Mr Yongchao Lu (University of Cincinnati)

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