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Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the UniverseWPI

Math.-String seminar

Date: January 8, 2009, 15:30-17:00
Place: Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B, Kashiwa Campus of the University of Tokyo
Speaker: Yu Nakayama (UC Berkeley)
Title: An Index for Non-relativistic Superconformal Field Theories [PDF]
Abstract: We study the highest-weight representation of N=2 supersymmetric Schrodinger algebra which appears in non-relativistic superconformal field theories in (1+2) dimension. We define the index for the non-relativistic superconformal field theories and study its properties. As a concrete example, we compute the index for the non-relativistic limit of N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theory recently proposed by Aharony et al. This index may give a new mathematical invariant for Calabi-Yau manifold probed by M2-branes.