Physics

We will review the connection between the six-dimensional (2,0) theory and maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills in five dimensions (MSYM). We will discuss the implications of a conjectured relation between the two, at all energy scales, for MSYM. We...

N=1 supersymmetric SU(2) gauge theory with 4 flavors has not only the usual Seiberg dual description, but also the Intriligator-Pouliot dual as an Sp(1) gauge theory, and yet another one found by Csaki, Schmaltz, Skiba and Terning (CSST). We show...

This talk is based on http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6589

In this talk I discuss that non-commutative and non-associative geometry emerges for closed strings moving in non-geometric backgrounds. The origin of closed string non-commutativity (non-associativity) is due to new closed string boundary...