Bounds and Dualities of Type II Little String Theories
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS AND ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR
When: November 7, 2024
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Address:
20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Speaker: Fabian Ruehle (Northeastern University)
The goal of this seminar is to introduce Type II Little String Theories (LSTs), which are six-dimensional supersymmetric QFTs. We explore how to geometrically engineer these theories within the context of M-/F-theory (top-down) as well as consistent QFT realizations (bottom-up). After that, we turn to the worldsheet theory of LSTs, which are two-dimensional N=(0,4) SCFTs. Using anomaly inflow and unitarity, we derive strong constraints on the rank of their global symmetry algebras.
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