Seminar series
Date
Mon, 17 Oct 2016
12:00
12:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Christopher Beem
Organisation
Oxford
I will review the recently exposed connection between N=2 superconformal field theories in four dimensions and vertex operator algebras (VOAs). I will outline some general features of the VOAs that arise in this manner and describe the manner in which they reflect four-dimensional operations such as gauging and Higgsing. Time permitting, I will also touch on the modular properties of characters of these VOAs.