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Abstract:
Quantum Field Theory is the cornerstone of modern physics, providing the fundamental framework to describe particle interactions, but its perturbative methods fail for strongly coupled systems. Supersymmetry, by relating bosons and fermions, enables exact cancellations of divergent quantum corrections. These supersymmetric theories possess a moduli space of vacua arising from flat directions in the scalar potential. The choice of a specific point in this space spontaneously breaks the symmetries of the theory, in a generalized version of the Higgs mechanism. This talk will compare the key ideas of various new and already established algorithms and methods looking at the Higgs Mechanism on different branches of the moduli space of vacua in 3 dimensional N=4 supersymmetric theories.