Jun 17 – 28, 2019
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

5d SCFTs and their gauge theory phases

Jun 17, 2019, 2:00 PM
45m
4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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Speaker

Michele del Zotto (Durham University)

Description

In this talk I will revist the geometric engineering of five-dimensional supersymmetric conformal field theories (SCFTs) in M-theory after Intrilligator, Morrison and Seiberg. This esablishes a conjectural map assigning to each local isolated Calabi-Yau three-fold singularity a five-dimensional superconformal field theory. Focusing on the toric case, I will discuss applications of IIA/M-theory fiberwise duality to characterizing the possible gauge theory phases of these systems. This geometric setup clarifies the notion of “UV duality” for such theories. Along the way, I will provide a slightly revised gauge theoretical expression for the 5d prepotential, accounting correctly for the 5d parity anomaly. Based on the preprint arXiv:1812.10451, with Cyril Closset and Vivek Saxena.

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