Seminari del Dipartimento di Matematica

Seminario del 2019

Division algebras and the brane bouquet

nel ciclo di seminari: JOHN HUERTA

algebra e geometria

In the last talk, we met some "higher" algebraic structures associated to strings. We expand on this idea, to give the Fiorenza-Sat-Schreiber "brane bouquet" of L-infinity algebras. Then we describe our most recent work with Sati and Schreiber: in the 11 dimensional spacetime famous from supergravity and M-theory, we review the classification of finite group actions that preserve some supersymmetry, and show how we can extend the brane bouquet to this equivariant setting.