27.03.2025 (Thursday)

Hidden Symmetries in N=2 Superconformal Theories

Regular Seminar Konstantinos Zoubos (University of Pretoria)

at:
15:15 Other
room LIMS, Royal Institution
abstract:

Orbifolding the N=4 SYM theory naively breaks its SU(4) R-symmetry group to a much smaller subgroup, such as SU(2)xU(1) if N=2 supersymmetry is preserved. I will discuss how, by extending our notion of symmetry to include Lie groupoids and their twists, one can recover the broken generators and show that, at the planar level, a version of the full SU(4) symmetry is still present. I will briefly discuss the implications of this hidden symmetry as far as the planar spectrum of the theory is concerned.