29 June 2026 to 3 July 2026
Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University
Europe/Berlin timezone

Ilarion Melnikov, The spectral flow operator in (2,2) Calabi-Yau GLSMs

3 Jul 2026, 11:00
1h
02.430 (Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University)

02.430

Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz

Speaker

Ilarion Melnikov

Description

The (2,2) GLSM Lagrangian allows for a simple presentation of a number of deformations of the IR SCFT obtained as the endpoint of the RG flow defined by the gauge theory path integral.
Typically, this only covers a subset of the deformations. In this talk I will review some work on describing the missing, so-called “non-toric” and “non-polynomial”, deformations as operators in the chiral algebra of the Lagrangian theory, and I will explain the key challenge through a construction, found together with Ronen Plesser, of a special holomorphic operator—the chiral spectral flow operator—in terms of the GLSM fields.

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