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Gauged Linear Sigma Models, disk partition function and nonabelian matrix factorizations
Speaker:Mauricio Romo (Kavli IPMU)
Abstract:I will explain how the supersymmetric disk partition function Z_{D^2} of gauged linear sigma models relate to the central charge of objects in the category of B-branes of a Calabi-Yau (CY). The advantage of this approach is that Z_{D^2} provides an expression at every point in the quantum corrected moduli space of the CY. The B-branes in these models are realized naturally as matrix factorizations, equivariant under the gauge group. I will explain how to relate them to more familiar objects such as coherent sheaves on the CY and show applications of this result to different type of CYs, including more exotic non-complete intersections.
Date: Mon, 21.07.2014
Time: 14:00
Duration: 60 min
Location:Institute for Theoretical Physics – Vienna University of Technology, Seminar room 136, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8 – 10, 10th floor, B (yellow tower)
Contact:Johanna Knapp