Speaker
Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor
Description
The last few years have witnessed a renewed interest in six dimensional quantum theories, some 20 years after the existence of non-trivial conformal fixed points for such theories was first argued for. 6d theories generically contain strings in their spectrum and require novel field theoretic tools for their description. In this talk, we will discuss how the spectrum arising from quantization of the 6d string is captured by the topological string. We will argue that knowledge of the anomaly polynomial implies the holomorphic anomaly equation governing the topological string, and use the latter in conjunction with modularity properties to solve for the partition function exactly order by order in the number of strings.
