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Formal QFT.
Chair: Finn Gagliano
In this talk, I will describe how supersymmetric localisation can be reinterpret and enhanced through the BV formalism. I will give a brief review of supersymmetric localisation, followed by a brief review of BRST quantisation. After this, I will explain how localisation can be reinterpret through the BRST framework. Then, I will explain how the BV formalism improves on the BRST formalism for...
The thermal deconfinement-confinement transition in SU(N) gauge theory is known to be first-order for N ≥ 3, but the dynamics of this transition are poorly understood. Lattice data indicates the presence of a small coefficient in the exponent of the nucleation rate which likely strongly alters the phase transition dynamics. In this talk, I discuss our study in arXiv:2508.10091 that provides...
Most of the computational evidence for the Bose–Fermi duality of fundamental fields coupled to $U(N)$ Chern–Simons theories originates in the large-N calculations performed in the light-cone gauge. The evaluation of the thermal free energy on a finite-sized sphere is elusive in the light-cone gauge but more natural in another gauge, the ‘temporal’ gauge. We use it to evaluate the...
