Seminar:
Algebra and Geometry lecture series
Event time:
Friday, February 21, 2025 - 3:00pm
Location:
KT801
Speaker:
Sam DeHority
Speaker affiliation:
Yale University
Event description:
Motivated by a physics construction in 4d N=2 superconformal field theories, mathematicians have studied a class of vertex algebras with a number of interesting relations with the cohomology of moduli spaces of stable Higgs bundles of a curve C. We will discuss basic definitions and constructions in the theory of vertex algebras, and discuss examples, including Arakawa’s construction of class S VOAs.