22.10.2012 (Monday)

Holography of 3d N=4 superconformal quiver theories

Regular Seminar John Estes (Imperial College)

at:
14:00 IC
room B741
abstract:

3d N=4 superconformal quiver theories arise as the low energy description of intersecting D3/D5/NS5 branes. I will discuss the backreacted solutions describing the near horizon geometry of such configurations. A map between the CFT and supergravity solutions is proposed. As a check, the CFT partition function on S^3 is computed using localization technqiues and matched to the supergravity results.