Langlands Meeting on Friday, November 12, 2004

Time: 3:10pm,
Place: 430 Birge Hall.

Six-dimensional theories and S-duality

Abstract:

It is widely believed that electric/magnetic duality and the existence of such modular forms have a natural explanation in six-dimensional physics. Witten conjectured that there exists a strongly-coupled six-dimensional quantum field theory that is responsible for these observations. The search for this mysterious field theory is an ongoing effort in string theory.

Speaker: Ori Ganor

Topics to be covered

Six-dimensional self-dual field theories;

References

"Global Aspects of Electric-Magnetic Duality," by E. Verlinde, [hep-th/9506011]
"Geometric Origin of Montonen-Olive Duality," by C. Vafa, [hep-th/9707131]

Please contact Ori Ganor at origa@socrates.berkeley.edu if you have any questions or comments about this website, or if you would like to volunteer to give a talk.