Theory Group Seminar

Dr. Silviu Pufu, Princeton University

"Accidental symmetries and the conformal bootstrap"

2:00pm, RLM 7.104

Abstract: I will talk about an application of the conformal bootstrap and supersymmetric localization techniques to argue that in certain Wess-Zumino models in 2+1 dimensions there is symmetry enhancement in the infrared.  These models are generalizations of the critical O(N) vector model and have N=2 supersymmetry.  They are interesting in that for small enough N there are no indications other than the conformal bootstrap that they should exhibit symmetry enhancement.