Canonical Singularities and Superconformal Field Theories
Time: 2021-06-21
Published By: He Liu
Speaker(s): Yinan Wang (Peking University)
Time: 16:00-17:00 June 24, 2021
Venue: Room 29, Quan Zhai, BICMR
5d superconformal field theories can be defined as 11d M-theory on canonical threefold singularities, which are generally non-isolated. In particular, the crepant resolution of the singularity encodes a lot of physical information. I will try to capture the flop invariant information of the resolution geometry with a diagram, which has important physical applications.
References: 1907.05404, 1912.04264, 2004.15007.