Status | Confirmed |
Seminar Series | STR-LPT-ENS-HE |
Subjects | hep-th |
Date | Tuesday 15 May 2018 |
Time | 11:30 |
Institute | LPTENS |
Seminar Room | LPTENS library |
Speaker's Last Name | Saemann |
Speaker's First Name | Christian |
Speaker's Email Address | c [dot] saemann [at] hw [dot] ac [dot] uk |
Speaker's Institution | Heriot-Watt University at Edinburgh |
Title | Towards an M5-brane model: A 6d superconformal field theory |
Abstract | I will discuss a classical six-dimensional superconformal field theory containing a non- abelian tensor multiplet which we recently constructed in arXiv:1712.06623. This theory satisfies many of the properties of the mysterious (2,0)-theory: non-abelian 2-form potentials, ADE-type gauge structure, reduction to Yang-Mills theory and reduction to M2- brane models. There are still some crucial differences to the (2,0)-theory, but our action seems to be a key stepping stone towards a potential classical formulation of the (2,0)- theory. I will review in detail the underlying mathematics of categorified gauge algebras and categorified connections, which make our constructions possible. |
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