d=4 N=2 Field Theory And Physical Mathematics

by Gregory W. Moore (Rutgers University)

Wednesday 12 Jul 2017, 14:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

I will explain the meaning of the two phrases in the title. Much of the talk will be a review of the renowned Seiberg-Witten formulation of the low-energy physics of certain four dimensional supersymmetric interacting quantum field theories. In the latter part of the talk I will briefly describe some of the significant progress that has been made in solving for the so-called BPS sector of the Hilbert space of these theories. Investigations into these physical questions have had a nontrivial impact on mathematics.

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