12.03.2014 (Wednesday)

Elliptic genera, mock modular forms and applications

Triangular Seminar Jan Troost (ENS Paris)

at:
16:30 IC
room Blackett Lecture Theatre 1
abstract:

We discuss elliptic genera of supersymmetric two-dimensional conformal field theories with continuous spectra. We argue that they consist of a mock modular term, and a non-holomorphic modular completion. We illustrate the general arguments with a large class of examples, computed using conformal field theory, string theory and localization techniques. We discuss applications, amongst others to black hole physics.