IAS Physics Group Meeting

This group meeting will be presented in-person in the Bloomberg Lecture Hall at the IAS and on Zoom. The Zoom link will be provided in the email announcement.

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All in-person attendees must be fully vaccinated, including a booster dose, and masks are optional in all indoor spaces. Additionally, all off-campus attendees are required to upload proof of vaccination that includes a booster dose via the IAS CrowdPass App . 

Abstract: In this talk I will discuss aspects of decoupling fields that appear in the engineering of 4d SCFTs from compactifications of 6d (1,0) SCFTs of A_(N-1) type.  By studying various ways of constructing the anomaly polynomial for the 4d theory, it is possible to account for decoupling fields when the 6d SCFT is compactified on a Riemann surface.  I will also discuss their geometric origin and their role along the RG flow.