PIRSA:18060061

Progress towards a classification of 5d N=1 SCFTs

Jefferson, P. (2018). Progress towards a classification of 5d N=1 SCFTs . Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/18060061

Jefferson, Patrick. Progress towards a classification of 5d N=1 SCFTs . Perimeter Institute, Jun. 05, 2018, https://pirsa.org/18060061 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:18060061,
            doi = {10.48660/18060061},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/18060061},
            author = {Jefferson, Patrick},
            keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings},
            language = {en},
            title = {Progress towards a classification of 5d N=1 SCFTs },
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2018},
            month = {jun},
            note = {PIRSA:18060061 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Patrick Jefferson Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Theoretical Physics

Talk numberPIRSA:18060061
DOI10.48660/18060061
Collection
Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

I describe recent progress in classifying 5d N=1 field theories with interacting UV superconformal fixed points (i.e. 5d SCFTs). In the first part of the talk, I review a newly proposed catalog of candidate (simple) gauge theories which captures theories missed by prior field theoretic classification efforts. In the second part of the talk, I discuss a classification program for rank 1 and 2 5d SCFTs in terms of Calabi-Yau 3-folds, along with prospects for its extension to arbitrary rank. This geometric classification program refines the field theoretic approach by incorporating non-perturbative physics, predicts a number of dualities between 5d gauge theories, and supports the idea that all 5d SCFTs can be obtained by compactifying 6d (1,0) SCFTs on a circle.