Conformal Field Theory In Four And Six Dimensions
Representation Theory
2008-02-07 v2 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
The goal of these notes is to give a brief explanation of how electric-magnetic duality in four dimensions is related to the existence of an unusual conformal field theory in six dimensions.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.0712.0157,
title = {Conformal Field Theory In Four And Six Dimensions},
author = {Edward Witten},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.0157},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
16 pp; lectures presented at the Conference On Topology, Geometry, and Quantum Field Theory (Oxford University, 2002); minor error corrected in v. 2