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15.06.2017 / 14:15 - 15:15 / Hamburg, building 2a, seminar room 2
String Theory SeminarSix-dimensional CFTs and M5-branes
Alessandro Tomasiello (Milano-Bicocca)
I will review some recent progress on six-dimensional conformal field theories. I will also highlight its application to the dynamics of M5-branes, one of the missing ingredients in string theory. On an orbifold singularity, M5s can fractionate, and they can recombine by sometimes leaving behind a 'frozen' version of the singularity. The CFTs describing these processes also happen to be ubiquitous building blocks for more complicated ones. There is also evidence for other processes where branes recombine in patterns associated to nilpotent orbits of Lie groups, with precise checks obtained by anomalies and moduli space dimensions.
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