Speaker
Sameer Murthy (King’s College London, United Kingdom)
Date & Time
Mon, 15 December 2025, 15:30 to 17:00
Venue
Chern Lecture Hall
Resources
Abstract
I will discuss how the technique of supersymmetric localization can be adapted to calculate exact bosonic path integrals in a class of theories where the fermions decouple from the bosons. I will then show how this method can be used to calculate the partition function of the WZW model as a sum over classical solutions. I will discuss SU(2) in some detail, as well as two related models: SL(2) and hyperbolic 3-space, i.e. Euclidean AdS3. In all these cases, the exact partition function essentially follows from the knowledge of symmetries and of free fermions.
Zoom link: https://icts-res-in.zoom.us/j/88092766911?pwd=R3ZrVk9yeW96ZmQ4ZG9KRzVhenRKZz09
Meeting ID: 880 9276 6911
Passcode: 232322