12.04.2023 (Wednesday)

String duals of two-dimensional Yang-Mills and symmetric product orbifolds

Triangular Seminar Shota Komatsu (CERN)

at:
16:30 QMUL
room David Sizer Lecture Theatre
abstract:

We propose a (bosonic) worldsheet description of two-dimensional Yang-Mills. We also argue that similar worldsheet actions provide candidate duals to the symmetric product orbifolds for arbitrary seed CFTs.