IIB Determined
Jonathan Heckman (University of Pennsylvania)
Abstract: We use the Swampland Cobordism Conjecture recently proposed by McNamara and Vafa to study the spectrum of objects in type IIB string theory. A famous feature of type IIB string theory (as well as many quantum systems) is that it enjoys a non-abelian duality group. By computing the relevant cobordism groups, we show that the cobordism conjecture successfully reconstructs many known supersymmetric objects, and also predicts the existence of a new non-supersymmetric "reflection 7-brane," the properties of which we describe. Based on joint work with Debray, Dierigl, Montero and Torres.
HEP - phenomenologyHEP - theorymathematical physics
Audience: researchers in the topic
Series comments: Description: Weekly research seminar of the NHETC at Rutgers University
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| Organizers: | Christina Pettola*, Vivek Saxena, Nicolas Fernandez Gonzalez, Erica DiPaola* |
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