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SUMMARY:Bounds and Dualities of Type II Little String Theories
DESCRIPTION:Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar \nSpeaker: Fabian Ruehle (Northeastern University) \nTitle: Bounds and Dualities of Type II Little String Theories \nAbstract: The goal of this seminar is to introduce Type II Little String Theories (LSTs)\, which are six-dimensional supersymmetric QFTs. We explore how to geometrically engineer these theories within the context of M-/F-theory (top-down) as well as consistent QFT realizations (bottom-up). After that\, we turn to the worldsheet theory of LSTs\, which are two-dimensional N=(0\,4) SCFTs. Using anomaly inflow and unitarity\, we derive strong constraints on the rank of their global symmetry algebras.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/mathphys_11724/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry
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SUMMARY:(Un)likely intersections
DESCRIPTION:Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar \nSpeaker: Tom Scanlon\, UC Berkeley \nTitle: (Un)likely intersections\n\nAbstract: The Zilber-Pink conjectures predicts that for an ambient special variety  (such as an abelian variety or a Shimura variety)\, if   is an irreducible algebraic subvariety which is not contained a proper special subvariety of  (e.g. a proper algebraic subgroup in the abelian variety case or a variety of Hodge type in the case of Shimura varieties)\, then the union of the unlikely intersections  as  ranges over the special subvarieties of  with  is not Zariski dense in .  While various instances of this conjecture have been proven\, it remains open in most cases of interest.  In this lecture\, I will describe some of my work with Jonathan Pila in which we prove an effective function field version of this conjecture along with a counterpart to the Zilber-Pink conjecture proven with Sebastian Eterović:  after accounting for some geometric obstructions\, the likely intersections\, i.e. the union of the intersections  with  special and \,  are dense in the Euclidean topology in .   Our techniques for both results come from o-minimal complex analysis and differential algebra.\n\n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/mathphys_111424/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry
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SUMMARY:A new construction of c = 1 conformal blocks
DESCRIPTION:Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar \nSpeaker: Qianyu Hao\, University of Geneva \nTitle: A new construction of c = 1 conformal blocks\n\nAbstract: The Virasoro conformal blocks are very interesting since they have many connections to other areas of math and physics. For example\, when c = 1\, they are related to tau functions of Painlevé equations. I will first explain what Virasoro conformal blocks are. Then I will describe a new way to construct Virasoro blocks at c = 1 on C by using the “abelian” Heisenberg conformal blocks on a branched double cover of C. The main new idea in our work is to use a spectral network. It is closely related to the idea of nonabelianization of the flat connections in the work of Gaiotto-Moore-Neitzke and Neitzke-Hollands. This nonabelianization construction enables us to compute the harder-to-get Virasoro blocks using the simpler abelian objects. This is based on a joint work with Andrew Neitzke.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/mathphys_112024/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry
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SUMMARY:Skein valued curve counts for the topological vertex and knot conormals
DESCRIPTION:Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar \nSpeaker: Tobias Ekholm\, Uppsala University \nTitle: Skein valued curve counts for the topological vertex and knot conormals \nAbstract: Combining the invariance of holomorphic curve counts in the skein module with a study of holomorphic curves at infinity of the vertex we find three simple skein operator polynomials that annihilates the (skein valued) topological vertex. We show that these operator polynomials together with natural initial conditions determine the partition function uniquely and then demonstrate that the original Aganagic-Klemm-Marino-Vafa formula for the topological vertex interpreted as a skein valued curve count satisfies the operator polynomials. This is joint work with Longhi and Shende. We end with a general discussion of similar ‘skein D-modules’ for knot conormals. \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/mathphys_112124/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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