13.03.2025 (Thursday)

(Super)blocks, free block coefficients, and applications to N=4 SYM at strong coupling

Regular Seminar Paul Heslop (Durham University)

at:
14:00 QMUL
room G. O. Jones 610
abstract:

Recently a formula for free theory (super)block coefficients in many SCFTs was first guessed and then proved https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14077. I will describe this result and summarise some of the background to it, involving a number of beautiful relations between superblocks, symmetric polynomials, superJacobi polynomials, Heckman Opdam hypergeometric functions, Calogero Sutherland Moser wave functions and Cauchy identities. I will also give a new application to strong coupling N=4 SYM.