Seminar series
Date
Mon, 05 Mar 2012
Time
12:00 -
13:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Cyril Closset
Organisation
Weizmann Institute
The partition function of 3d N=2 superconformal theories on the
3-sphere can be computed exactly by localization methods. I will explain
some sublteties associated to that important result. As a by-product, this
analysis establishes the so-called F-maximization principle for N=2 SCFTs in
3d: the exact superconformal R-charge maximizes the 3-sphere free energy
F=-log Z.