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4D/2D duality and representation theory

Categoria: 
Seminari di Algebra e Geometria
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Sala di Consiglio
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Dipartimento di Matematica, Sapienza Università di Roma

Speaker: 

Tomoyuki Arakawa (Kyoto University)

This talk is about the 4D/2D duality by Beem et al., a new connection between quantum field theory and representation theory discovered rather recently. It associates an algebraic object called VOA to any 4-dimensional superconformal field theory with N=2 supersymmetry, and the resulting VOA is conjecturally a complete invariant of the 4-dimensional theory. I will talk about the rich structure of the representation theory of the VOAs arising from 4-dimensional theory by this duality.