| Speaker: | Mina Aganagic (UC Berkeley) |
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| Title: | ADE Little String Theory and Triality |
| Date (JST): | Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 12:00 - 13:30 |
| Place: | Seminar Room A |
| Abstract: | ADE little string theory of (2,0) type aries in a limit of IIB string theory in certain background. Some aspects of the dynamics of the theory should be captured by theories on its defects (the defects originate with D-branes in string theory). A mathematical test of this idea leads to a triality of correspondences — which we prove — between objects that arise in different areas of mathematics: (1) instanton counting and (2) J-functions in Gromov-Witten theory (of K-theoretic type) and (3) (q-deformations) of conformal blocks of W-algebras of ADE type. The relation to W-algebras is anticipated by (ADE variant of) AGT correspondence since the low energy limit of little string theory is the (2,0) conformal field theory in six dimensions. |
