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Math-Physics Joint Seminar

Tuesday, September 5, 2017 - 4:30pm

Sheldon Katz

UIUC

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C2

In this talk, I present a classification of 5d SCFTs with two-dimensional Coulomb branch. This is accomplished by studying local Calabi-Yau threefolds containing a complex surface with two intersecting irreducible projective components, possibly attached to other noncompact components, such that the entire configuration arises as a crepant resolution of a canonical threefold singularity. This talk is based on joint work in progress with Patrick Jefferson, Hee-Cheol Kim, and Cumrun Vafa.

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