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PU High Energy Theory Seminar
Quantum M2 branes and AdS/CFT
Abstract: We will review some recent work with M. Beccaria and S. Giombi on checking AdS/CFT duality by reproducing certain supersymmetric localization results in 3d superconformal Chern-Simons-matter (ABJM) theory by semiclassical quantization of supermembrane in dual 11d background. Examples include large N expectation value of BPS Wilson loop and instanton contribution to free energy of ABJM theory on 3-sphere. Similar results are found for non-perturbative terms in the supersymmetric partition function (index) of 6d (2,0) theory on S5 x S1 that are captured at large N by quantum M2 brane in dual M-theory background.
Date & Time
November 06, 2023 | 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Location
Joseph Henry RoomSpeakers
Arkady Tseytlin, Imperial College London