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Boundary States and Anomalous Symmetries of Fermionic Minimal Models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-02-04 v1

Abstract

The fermionic minimal models are a recently-introduced family of two-dimensional spin conformal field theories. We determine all of their conformal boundary states and potentially anomalous Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 global symmetries. The latter task hinges upon on a conjecture about su(2)\mathfrak{su}(2) affine parities generalising an earlier result known to have an interpretation in terms of Fermat curves. Our results indicate a close connection between several properties of the models, including the matching of the sizes of the SPT classes of boundary states, the existence of anomalous Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 symmetries, and the vanishing of the Ramond-Ramond sector, for which we provide an explanation.

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@article{arxiv.2102.02203,
  title  = {Boundary States and Anomalous Symmetries of Fermionic Minimal Models},
  author = {Philip Boyle Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.02203},
  year   = {2021}
}

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34 pages, 8 figures