Jun 16 – 20, 2025
iGAP
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Irregular Kac-Moody representations, KZ-equations and Gaiotto-Teschner modules

Jun 17, 2025, 4:00 PM
1h
Room D (iGAP)

Room D

iGAP

Old SISSA Building Via Beirut 2

Speaker

Babak Haghighat

Description

In this talk, I will present irregular representations of Kac-Moody algebras where we restrict ourselves to the sl(2,C) case. I show how such irregular representations correspond to irregular Gaiotto-Teschner representations of the Virasoro algebra. The associated KZ equations for conformal blocks with one irregular operator at infinity and their integral representations are derived. By connecting to 2d Liouville theory, I will show how the conformal blocks governed by our irregular KZ equation correspond to 4d Argyres-Douglas theories with surface operator insertions. The corresponding flat connections describe braiding between such operators on the Gaiotto curve.

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