TH String Theory Seminar

Massive vacua, duality and number theory

by Prof. Jan Troost (ENS)

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

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

CERN

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Description

We discuss the massive vacua of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory deformed by N=1 supersymmetry preserving mass terms. We count these vacua on four-dimensional flat space as well as after circle compactification. We find beautiful relations to nilpotent orbits, number theory and extensions of the ring of modular forms.