04.10.2012 (Thursday)

New SCFTs From M5-Branes I

Regular Seminar Brian Wecht (Queen Mary)

at:
14:00 QMW
room 208
abstract:

I will describe a new infinite set of AdS/CFT dual pairs which come from M5-branes wrapping Riemann surfaces. These solutions interpolate between and extend beyond a famous pair of solutions by Maldacena and Nunez. Additionally, the dual SCFTs are so-called "non-Lagrangian" theories, which have no weakly coupled UV description yet can (and will) be described explicitly.