Theory Group Seminar

Dr. Nathan Seiberg, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

"Anomalies, Conformal Manifolds, and Spheres"

2:00pm, RLM 7.104

Abstract: We will discuss a continuous family of conformal field theories (conformal manifold) and the metric on this space. This metric appears in a certain anomaly. Sometimes the sphere partition function is ambiguous. In other cases it is meaningful and allows us to compute this metric. This understanding resolves a number of puzzles and leads to new insights about the conformal manifold.