Published on Department of Mathematics Calendar (https://calendar.math.yale.edu)

Home > Calendar > Calendar

Thursday, January 22, 2026

  • « Prev [1]
  • Next » [2]
Time Items
All day
 
4:00pm
Categorifying the Schur index of Seiberg-Witten theory [3]
01/22/2026 - 4:00pm

The”Schur index” is typically defined as a protected operator count in 4d N=2 superconformal field theories. It turns out in fact that one can define it for a generic 4d N=2 theory, conformal or not, by using the holomorphic-topological twist. Its categorification, namely the space of holomorphic-topological local operators, is expected to be a Poisson vertex algebra. However, for a general non-conformal theory, not much is known about the shape of this PVA. For 4d N=2 gauge theories with matter, I will formulate this PVA as a (relative) Lie algebra cohomology problem and then for the case of pure SU(2) Seiberg-Witten theory propose an explicit answer for the cohomology.

Location:
KT 801
 
Print Calendar [4]
Subscribe to calendar .ics feed [5]
Visit our web site at http://math.yale.edu for updates and special announcements

Links
[1] https://calendar.math.yale.edu/calendar/grid/day/2026-01-21 [2] https://calendar.math.yale.edu/calendar/grid/day/2026-01-23 [3] https://calendar.math.yale.edu/event/categorifying-schur-index-seiberg-witten-theory [4] https://calendar.math.yale.edu/print/list/calendar/grid/day/2026-01-22 [5] webcal://calendar.math.yale.edu/calendar/export.ics