From the Weyl anomaly to partition functions

Abril 9, 2018
De 3:00pm hasta 4:00pm

IFT Seminar Room/Red Room

Theoretical Physics, general interest
Speaker: 
Stefan Theisen
Institution: 
Albert Einstein Institut, Postdam
Location&Place: 

IFT Seminar Room/Red Room

Abstract: 

Conformal field theories are the corner stones of
more general QFTs. I will describe their Weyl anomalies in the
presence of marginal deformations and how, in the
presence of sufficient supersymmetry, they fix the partition
function of these theories.