Seminar series
Date
Thu, 19 Oct 2017
15:00
15:00
Location
L4
Speaker
Fabio Abruzzi
Organisation
UPenn
Compactifications of 6D Superconformal Field Theories (SCFTs) on four-manidolfds lead to novel interacting 2D SCFTs. I will describe the various Lagrangian and non-Lagrangian sectors of the resulting 2D theories, as well as their interactions. In general this construction can be embedded in compactifications of the physical superstring, providing a general template for realizing 2D conformal field theories coupled to worldsheet gravity, i.e. a UV completion for non-critical string theories.