2007/12/02 by Edward Witten, Witten, Edward
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Representation Theory (math.RT) #math-ph #math.MP #math.RT
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0712.0157
16 pp; lectures presented at the Conference On Topology, Geometry, and Quantum Field Theory (Oxford University, 2002); minor error corrected in v. 2
arxiv created 2008/02/07 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
The goal of these notes is to give a brief explanation of how electric-magnetic duality in four dimensions is related to the existence of an unusual conformal field theory in six dimensions.