THE SEMINAR

THEORY OF DUALITY

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN PHYSICS



On the 16th of November 2017, at 10:15 a.m.

John Huerta (CAMGSD Lisboa)

will give a talk on

"The higher symmetry group of string theory"

Abstract
We study the WZW 3-form of the classical Green—Schwarz superstring. We give a quick proof that it is closed, and show how it extends the super-Poincaré algebra to an algebraic structure called a `super Lie 2-algebra'. Viewing this as a infinitesimal object, we then give a geometric construction of a 'super Lie 2-group' integrating this algebra. Our talk will be aimed at nonexperts and focus on concrete examples.

The seminar takes place on Thursdays from 10:15 a.m. to 12:00 in the room 2.23 of the main building of the Faculty of Physics (the 2nd floor), Pasteur Str. 5, Warszawa.
Additional information can be found on the webpage http://oldwww.fuw.edu.pl/KMMF/sem.czw.przedp.html.