Go to the Indico Home Page Oldest event Older event Up to category Newer event Newest event Printable version
  • Event
  • Lecture
    • Switch to the management area of this event
    Login
    High Energy Theory Group Seminars

    Massive type 0A and M-theory

    by Niccolò Cribiori (KU Leuven)

    → Europe/Rome
    1/1-2 - Aula "C. Voci" (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia - Edificio Marzolo)

    1/1-2 - Aula "C. Voci"

    Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia - Edificio Marzolo

    32
    Description

    A remarkable recent proposal broadens the notion of string compactification to include singular “quantum” spaces, such as two circles joined at a point to form a figure-eight. In this talk, I will use this idea to extend Hull’s classic construction of massive type IIA and propose an M-theory origin for the two massive deformations of non-supersymmetric type 0A string theory. The resulting "quantum fibration" geometrizes both Romans mass parameters.