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MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR
Quantization of Fayet-Iliopoulos Parameters in Supergravity

Oct
10
2012

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• Speaker: Eric Sharpe (Virginia Tech)
• Host Department: Physics
• Date: 10/10/2012
• Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  
  
• Location: Oskar Klein Conference Room (3481 Randall)
  
  
• Description:

  In this talk we will discuss Fayet-Iliopoulo?s parameters in four dimensional N=1 supergravity. Although for many years there was lore that they did not exist in supergravity, it was recently argued by Seiberg that they could exist but are quantized. We will review that quantization. We will also discuss related issues in nonlinear sigma models with a restriction on nonperturbative sectors. In such theories, the FI quantization above is modified, and we will discuss how that modification has a simple mathematical understanding.