The Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics (ASC)
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The Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics (ASC) in Munich regularly organizes workshops and conferences on special topics in theoretical physics, sometimes in collaboration with other institutes in Munich, like the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP). A selection can be found in this channel.
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The Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics (ASC) in Munich regularly organizes workshops and conferences on special topics in theoretical physics, sometimes in collaboration with other institutes in Munich, like the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP). A selection can be found in this channel.
I will review some recent progress on six-dimensional conformal field theories, highlighting applications to the
dynamics of M5-branes. On an orbifold singularity, M5s can fractionate, and they can recombine by sometimes
leaving behind a 'frozen' version of the singularity. The CFTs describing these processes also happen to be
ubiquitous building blocks for more complicated ones. There is also evidence for other processes where branes
recombine in patterns associated to nilpotent orbits of Lie groups, with precise checks obtained by anomalies and
moduli space dimensions.
ASC Workshops
The Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics (ASC) in Munich regularly organizes workshops and conferences on special topics in theoretical physics, sometimes in collaboration with other institutes in Munich, like the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP). A selection can be found in this channel.
