Symmetry theories from string theory

Name: Symmetry theories from string theory
Start: 2022-02-03T14:15:00+01:00
End: 2022-02-03T15:15:00+01:00
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by Iñaki Etxebarria (Durham)

Thursday Feb 3, 2022, 2:15 PM → 3:15 PM Europe/Berlin

Description

A rich class of d-dimensional field theories arises when placing M-theory on codimension (11-d) singularities. I will discuss how (d+1)-dimensional topological field theories (TQFTs) encode the (higher) symmetries and anomalies of these d-dimensional theories, and how these TQFTs can be extracted from the geometry of the singular space. I will illustrate the discussion by analysing some simple examples explicitly.