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Non-hyperbolic 3-manifolds and 3D field theories for 2D Virasoro minimal models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-03-11 v3 Geometric Topology

Abstract

Using 3D-3D correspondence, we construct 3D dual bulk field theories for general Virasoro minimal models M(P,Q)M(P,Q). These theories correspond to Seifert fiber spaces S2((P,PR),(Q,S),(3,1))S^2 ((P,P-R),(Q,S),(3,1)) with two integers (R,S)(R,S) satisfying PSQR=1PS-QR =1. In the unitary case, where PQ=1|P-Q|=1, the bulk theory has a mass gap and flows to a unitary topological field theory (TQFT) in the IR, which is expected to support the chiral Virasoro minimal model at the boundary under an appropriate boundary condition. For the non-unitary case, where PQ>1|P-Q|>1, the bulk theory flows to a 3D N=4\mathcal{N}=4 rank-0 superconformal field theory, whose topologically twisted theory supports the chiral minimal model at the boundary. We also provide a concrete field theory description of the 3D bulk theory using T[SU(2)]T[SU(2)] theories. Our proposals are supported by various consistency checks using 3D-3D relations and direct computations of various partition functions.

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@article{arxiv.2405.16377,
  title  = {Non-hyperbolic 3-manifolds and 3D field theories for 2D Virasoro minimal models},
  author = {Dongmin Gang and Heesu Kang and Seongmin Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.16377},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

28 pages, v2: small modifications in the main result, refs added