Leonardo Rastelli (Stony Brook)

Infinite chiral symmetry in four and six dimensions 

I will review the recent discovery that 4d superconformal field theories with N ≥ 2 SUSY and 6d superconformal field theories with (2, 0) SUSY admit a protected subsector isomorphic to a 2d chiral algebra. Infinite chiral symmetry has far-reaching consequences for the spectral data, correlation functions and central charges for any superconformal field theory in this class.

Dec 2 at 4pm in Geo/Phys 407

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