Speaker
Dr
Markus Dierigl
(UPenn)
Description
In this talk I will summarize recent results on the fate of center 1-form symmetries in six and eight dimensions. In particular, I will discuss their interplay between other gauged higher-form symmetries causing obstructions to the gauging of the discrete center 1-form symmetries, which would result in non-simply connected non-Abelian gauge groups. In this way we can find previously unknown consistency conditions for quantum theories of gravity. For eight dimensions these have a geometrical interpretation in terms of F-theory on elliptically fibered K3s.
Primary author
Dr
Markus Dierigl
(UPenn)
