PU High Energy Theory Seminar

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.