Lecturer: Dr. Itamar Yaakov
Affiliation: Department of Physics, Princeton University
Abstract:
I’ll describe how to define and compute
Euclidean partition functions of 4d N=1
theories on spaces that look like a circle
times a simple three manifold. These
partition functions can be interpreted as
supersymmetric indices: supertraces over
the Hilbert space resulting from quantizing
the theory on the three manifold, analogous
to the Witten index. I’ll show how to
calculate these indices using localization
and describe some applications of the
results.
Additional details of the upcoming Joint Seminars
in Theoretical High Energy Physics can be found
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