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Geometry & Topology Seminar

Title: Deformations of the Hitchin Integrable System and Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theories
Speaker: Aswin Balasubramanian (Rutgers University)
Date: 14 October 2019
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LH-1, Mathematics Department

I will begin by reviewing the relationship between Hitchin’s Integrable System and 4d N=2 Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theories. I will then discuss two classes of deformations of the Hitchin system which correspond, in the physical context, to relevant and marginal deformations of a conformal theory. The study of relevant deformations turns out to be related to the theory of sheets in a complex Lie algebra and their classification leads to a surprising duality between sheets in a Lie algebra and Slodowy slices in the Langlands dual Lie algebra (work done with J. Distler) . If there is time, I will discuss marginal deformations which are related to studying the Hitchin system as a family over the moduli space of curves including over nodal curves (ongoing project with J. Distler and R. Donagi) .


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