High Energy Theory Seminar

Series: High Energy Theory Seminar Series

Seiberg-Witten theory as a Fermi gas

Alba Grassi, ICTP Trieste,

In this talk I will first review some aspects of the topological string/spectral theory duality and then I will apply these results to study Seiberg-Witten theory in the 4 dimensional self-dual omega background. In particular I will show that this theory admits a formulation in terms of an ideal Fermi gas. I will also discuss the relation between this construction and Painlevé equations and provide a proof of the duality in the 4-dimensional limit

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