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Two-dimensional Anomaly, Orbifolding, and Boundary States

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-11-06 v2 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study anomalies of discrete internal global symmetry GG in two-dimensional rational conformal field theories based on twisted torus partition functions. The anomaly of GG can be seen from the noncommutativity of two symmetry lines inserted along the nontrivial cycles of two-torus and we propose a criterion to detect the anomaly, which agrees with the truncated modular SS-matrix approach. The obstruction for orbifolding has been recently interpreted as a mixed anomaly between GG and large diffeomorphisms. We clarify the relations among anomaly-free conditions, orbifoldable conditions, and invariant boundary state condition, focusing on Wess-Zumino-Witten models.

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@article{arxiv.1908.02918,
  title  = {Two-dimensional Anomaly, Orbifolding, and Boundary States},
  author = {Ken Kikuchi and Yang Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.02918},
  year   = {2019}
}

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45 pages, 2 figures, v2:minor improvement+acknowledgement added

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