PIRSA:17110106

On singularities of Super Conformal Field Theories

Martone, M. (2017). On singularities of Super Conformal Field Theories. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/17110106

Martone, Mario. On singularities of Super Conformal Field Theories. Perimeter Institute, Nov. 14, 2017, https://pirsa.org/17110106 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:17110106,
            doi = {10.48660/17110106},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/17110106},
            author = {Martone, Mario},
            keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings},
            language = {en},
            title = {On singularities of Super Conformal Field Theories},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2017},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:17110106 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Mario Martone

The University of Texas at Austin

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Abstract

Carefully studying the singularity structure of the moduli space of vacua of super conformal field theories, provides an incredibly powerful tool to extract information about such theories. In particular I will outline a concrete, yet technically challenging, strategy to go about carrying out a classification for SCFTs with extended supersymmetry in 4d.

I will explain in details how this classification has been worked out successfully for N=2 SCFTs in rank-1 and it is very promising in rank-2. And how with even higher Supersymmetry (N≥3) we can obtain a classification valid for all ranks making a few reasonable, yet key, assumptions.