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Global Anomalies on the Hilbert Space

CMSA EVENTS: CMSA QUANTUM MATTER IN MATH & PHYSICS SEMINAR

When: February 17, 2021
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Jaume Gomis - Perimeter PI

We will discuss an elementary way of detecting some global anomalies from the way the symmetry algebra is realized on the torus Hilbert space of the anomalous theory, give a physical description of the imprint of the “layers” that enter in the cobordism classification of anomalies and discuss applications, including how anomalies can imply a supersymmetric spectrum in strongly coupled (nonsupersymmetric) gauge theories.

Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/977347126