Seminar series
Date
Mon, 27 Feb 2023
13:00
13:00
Location
L1
Speaker
Taizan Watari
Organisation
Kavli IPMU
A 2d SCFT given as a non-linear sigma model of a Ricci-flat Kahler target
space is not a rational CFT in general; only special points in the moduli
space of the target-space metric, the 2d SCFTs are rational.
Gukov-Vafa's paper in 2002 hinted at a possibility that such special points
may be characterized by the property "complex multiplication" of the target space,
which has its origin in number theory. We revisit the idea, refine the Conjecture,
and prove it in the case the target space is T^4.
This presentation is based on arXiv:2205.10299 and 2212.13028 .