19.02.2009 (Thursday)

Quantum Symmetries and Marginal Deformations

Regular Seminar Konstantinos Zoubos (NBI)

at:
13:45 QMW
room 208
abstract:

I will discuss the Hopf algebraic (quantum symmetry) structures underlying certain four-dimensional finite quantum field theories which are related to the N=4 SYM theory by marginal deformations. The motivation is to understand why these theories, despite being finite (like N=4 SYM), are generically not integrable in the planar limit (unlike N=4 SYM). Apart from a better understanding of integrability, these hidden symmetries might eventually provide insight into the construction of the (still unknown) dual AdS/CFT geometries for these field theories.