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Math-Physics Joint Seminar

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 3:00pm

Edward Witten

Institute for Advanced Study

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

Note time change

We reformulate the Omega-deformation of four-dimensional gauge theory in a way that is valid away from fixed points of the associated group action. We use this reformulation together with the theory of coisotropic A-branes to explain recent results linking the Omega-deformation to integrable Hamiltonian systems in one direction and Liouville theory of two-dimensional conformal field theory in another direction.