On the Vafa-Witten theory on closed four-manifolds

Seminar series

String Theory Seminar

Date

Mon, 06 Nov 2017
12:45

Location

Speaker

Yuuji Tanaka

Organisation

Oxford

We discuss mathematical studies on the Vafa-Witten theory, one of topological twists of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions, from the viewpoints of both differential and algebraic geometry. After mentioning backgrounds and motivation, we describe some issues to construct mathematical theory of this Vafa-Witten one, and explain possible ways to sort them out by analytic and algebro-geometric methods, the latter is joint work with Richard Thomas.