High Energy Physics Seminar TOMORROW - De Marco (ULB Brussels)

[HECAP - Margherita Di Giovannantonio]

*_HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS SEMINARS_**__*


*Tuesday, 9 September *2025, at *16:00* - *Euler Lecture 
Hall****- https://indico.ictp.it/event/11108/*


Mario De Marco (ULB Brussels)



*“On the Classification of 5d SCFTs and of Canonical Threefolds"*
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_Abstract_

The classification of 5d SCFTs has a strong resemblance to a 
mathematical classification problem: we want to list classes of  
(physical) objects, and to elucidate the relations (morphisms) among 
them. Indeed, this is more than a coincidence, as M-theory naturally 
rephrases the problem in terms of the classification of canonical 
threefold singularities (CY3s).
In this talk, I will present a recent attempt at this classification, 
together with a novel presentation of such SCFTs/CY3s, based on 
generalized quivers. I will highlight the physics and the geometry of 
such objects, the relations (dualities) among them, and how our program 
led us to the discovery of  "exotics": SCFTs/CY3s whose existence sheds 
light on the whole class that we are studying.

/Based on
2311.04984 [MDM, M. Del Zotto, M. Graffeo, A. Sangiovanni],
2502.04431 [MDM, M. Del Zotto, J. Grimminger, A. Sangiovanni],
25xx.xxxxx [MDM, M. Del Zotto, M. Graffeo, A. Sangiovanni]
25xx.xxxxx [A. Bourget, MDM, M. Del Zotto, J. Grimminger, A. Sangiovanni]
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