| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76721 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree. | en_US |
| dc.format | Monograph | |
| dc.format.medium | Electronic Resource | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dc.type | Dissertation | |
| dcterms.abstract | In this dissertation we perform exact, non-perturbative computations in supersymmetric and superconformal quantum field theories. In the first part, we show that the conformal bootstrap equations, which implement the requirement that in a conformal quantum field theory any four-point function should be crossing symmetric, have an exactly solvable truncation in theories with extended supersymmetry. As a result, we introduce a new 4d/2d correspondence that assigns to any four-dimensional N =2 superconformal quantum field theory, Lagrangian or non-Lagrangian, a two-dimensional chiral algebra, and subsequently explore its structure in the context of theories of class S. In the second part, we extend the application of the so-called Higgs branch localization technique to evaluate exactly the path integral of Lagrangian supersymmetric quantum field theories, placed on compact three- and four-dimensional Euclidean manifolds. | |
| dcterms.available | 2017-09-20T16:51:03Z | |
| dcterms.contributor | van Nieuwenhuizen, Peter | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Rastelli, Leonardo | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | McGrew, Clark | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Rocek, Martin | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Takhtajan, Leon. | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | Peelaers, Wolfger | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-09-20T16:51:03Z | |
| dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2017-09-20T16:51:03Z | |
| dcterms.description | Department of Physics. | en_US |
| dcterms.extent | 344 pg. | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Monograph | |
| dcterms.format | Application/PDF | en_US |
| dcterms.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76721 | |
| dcterms.issued | 2015-12-01 | |
| dcterms.language | en_US | |
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| dcterms.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dcterms.subject | Physics | |
| dcterms.title | Exact Results in Supersymmetric and Superconformal Quantum Field Theories | |
| dcterms.type | Dissertation | |
