New SCFTs From M5-Branes

Particle Physics Theory seminar

New SCFTs From M5-Branes

  • Event time: 2:00pm
  • Event date: 3rd December 2014
  • Speaker: Brian Wecht (Queen Mary, University of London)
  • Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305,

Event details

In string/M-theory, it is possible to engineer a wide variety of interesting supersymmetric conformal field theories (SCFTs) by wrapping branes on nontrivial manifolds. In this talk, I will describe a new infinite set of theories which come from M5-branes on Riemann surfaces. The corresponding supergravity solutions interpolate between, and extend beyond, a famous pair of solutions by Maldacena and Nuñez. Additionally, the dual SCFTs are "non-Lagrangian" theories, which have no weakly coupled UV descriptions, yet can (and will) be described explicitly.

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