Special Kahler geometry and Landau-Ginzburg theories
Seminars
Date and Time: Monday, 20 May 2019, at 3:00 PM
Venue: Blokhintsev Hall (4th floor), Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics
Seminar topic: “Special Kahler geometry and Landau-Ginzburg theories”
Speaker: K. Aleshin (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Abstract:
Special Kahler geometry is a geometric structure behind coupling constants of d=4 N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories. It appears naturally in superstring compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds. Coupling constants are computed from complex and Kahler moduli geometry of the Calabi-Yau manifold and their explicit computation is not simple. In this talk I will explain a recently developed method to compute special geometry based on the correspondence of Calabi-Yau non-linear sigma models and supersymmetric Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds. This method allowed to compute special geometry for a huge class of manifolds for which no explicit computations were done before.
(Following the materials of the Candidate’s thesis)