Jonathan Heckman (University of Pennsylvania) “Top Down Approach to Categorical Symmetries”
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Abstract: Top down (i.e., stringy) constructions of quantum field theories provide a general template for constructing and studying a wide variety of different strongly coupled systems which are otherwise difficult to study using “textbook” methods based on perturbation theory of a Lagrangian field theory. In this talk we use the geometry of extra dimensions in string theory to study generalized … Read More