Conveners
Parallel Session Wednesday: Strings / Mathematicals Physics I
- Craig Lawrie (T (Theorie))
Part of the moduli space of type II string compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds is characterized by the variation of Hodge structure of the complex structure moduli space of the Calabi-Yau threefold.
In this talk, we will discuss subspaces of the complex structure moduli space, which are realized in terms of a closed variation of sub-Hodge structures. Physically, such sub-Hodge...
One of the most fascinating and important topics in contemporary mathematics is the study of modularity. This is a phenomenon where it is possible to associate a modular form to a manifold by using its number theoretic properties. Surprisingly, this deep correspondence has concrete implications for the physics of Calabi-Yau compactifications of string theory; the modular form turns out to...
The worldsheet conformal field theory associated to a string compactification is intimately related to the geometry of the underlying compact manifold. In this talk we will explore compactifications on manifolds that can be constructed as a (twisted) connected sum of two open manifolds. At the level of chiral algebras we expect the geometric structure to give rise to a "diamond" of algebra...
The study of low-energy theories that can be embedded into string theory has led to a number of proposals about the nature of quantum gravity. In turn, these ideas have implications for conformal field theories through holography. For instance, the CFT Distance Conjecture posits that at infinite-distance points of a conformal manifold, there is an infinite tower of conserved higher-spin...
We investigate the Higgs Branch of the six dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ Little String Theories models corresponding to the worldvolume of Heterotic $E_8 \times E_8$ and their T-dual $\mathrm{Spin}(32)/\mathbb{Z_2}$ instantons. Relying on the magnetic quiver technique, we manage to extract a $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ quiver whose Coulomb Branch moduli space is the same of the Higgs Branch of the...
