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SUMMARY:A Table Top View of E8xE8 Heterotic Strings - Neil Lambert\, KCL
DTSTART:20160121T130000Z
DTEND:20160121T140000Z
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CONTACT:Nima Doroud
DESCRIPTION:We will consider a world volume version of the classic Horava-
 Witten analysis of M-theory that leads to heterotic string theory. The spa
 cetime orbifold induces a gauge anomaly that is cancelled by chiral fermio
 ns in the fundamental of U(N) and that are localised at the fixed-points. 
 This provides a novel picture of  heterotic strings in terms of a 2+1 Cher
 n-Simons theory with additional boundary degrees of freedom. Such theories
  are also familiar to condensed matter systems.\n
LOCATION:Potter Room (first floor\, Pav. B)
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