29.11.2017 (Wednesday)

RG flows in 3d N=4 gauge theories

Regular Seminar Benjamin Assel (CERN)

at:
14:00 IC
room H503
abstract:

I will present a new approach to study the RG flow in 3d N=4 gauge theories, based on an analysis of the Coulomb branch of vacua. The Coulomb branch is described as a complex algebraic variety and important information about the strongly coupled fixed points of the theory can be extracted from the study of its singularities. I will use this framework to study the fixed points of USp(2N) gauge theories with fundamental matter, revealing some surprising features at low amount of matter.