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Maximally supersymmetric path integrals
Mathematical Physics| Speaker: | Johannes Broedel, Physics Dept, Stanford University |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Wed, Apr 27 2011, 3:10PM |
Description
Maximally supersymmetric field theories have been found to exhibit a
rich algebraic structure at the level of scattering amplitudes. Having
been derived from unitarity and symmetries of the S-matrix, those
properties are unaccessible using Feynmans path integrals. In this talk
I will present novel forms for the N=4 super Yang-Mills and N=8
supergravity actions, which connect to te BCFW recursion relations
nicely. Furthermore, the double-copy property relating N=4 super
Yang-Mills theory and N=8 supergravity will be discussed in the context
of the new forms of path integrals.