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Fermionization of conformal boundary states

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-11-24 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We construct the complete set of boundary states of two-dimensional fermionic CFTs using that of the bosonic counterpart. We see that there are two groups of boundary conditions, which contributes to the open-string partition function by characters with integer coefficients, or with 2\sqrt{2} times integer coefficients. We argue that, using the argument of [JHEP 09 (2020) 018], this 2\sqrt{2} indicates a single unpaired Majorana zero mode, and that these two groups of boundary conditions are mutually incompatible. We end the paper by mentioning a possible interpretation of the result in terms of the entanglement entropy.

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@article{arxiv.2103.01101,
  title  = {Fermionization of conformal boundary states},
  author = {Hiromi Ebisu and Masataka Watanabe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.01101},
  year   = {2021}
}

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11 pages