Aspects of 5d SCFTs and their gauge theory phases

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• Michele Del-Zotto (Durham)
• Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00
• Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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In this talk I will revist the geometric engineering of five-dimensional supersymmetric conformal field theories (SCFTs) in M-theory after Intrilligator, Morrison and Seiberg. This esablishes a conjectural bijection assigning to each local isolated Calabi-Yau three-fold singularity a five-dimensional superconformal field theory and viceversa. Focusing on the toric case, I will discuss applications of IIA /M-theory fiberwise duality to characterizing the possible gauge theory phases of these systems. This geometric setup clarifies the notion of “UV duality” for such theories. Along the way, I will provide a novel gauge theoretical expression for the 5d prepotential, accounting correctly for the 5d parity anomaly. Based on the preprint arXiv:1812.10451, with Cyril Closset and Vivek Saxena.

This talk is part of the Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars series.

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