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 times integer coefficients. We argue that, using the argument of [JHEP 09 (2020) 018], this 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