Geometric Aspects of Supersymmetric Partition Functions

• Main Author: Zhao, Boan
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cambridge 2024
• Subjects: Complex Geometry; Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theory; South Pole; Cones The; Cones, The; South pole
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/373728; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.112057

We explore the physical interpretations of concepts in (equivariant) K-theory using supersym- metric partition functions. The partition functions are first computed using supersymmetric localisation and then interpreted using suitable concepts in K-theory. We show that quantum field theories predict...