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Exact conformal field theories (CFTs) are obtained by using the approach of Poisson-Lie (PL) T-duality in the presence of spectators. We explicitly construct some non-Abelian T-dual $\sigma$-models (here as the PL T-duality on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-08 Ali Eghbali

This article reviews some recent progress in our understanding of the structure of Rational Conformal Field Theories, based on ideas that originate for a large part in the work of A. Ocneanu. The consistency conditions that generalize…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Valentina Petkova , Jean-Bernard Zuber

In this sequel (to [Phys. Rev. Res. 3, 023044(2021)], arXiv:2006.10072), we study randomly driven $(1+1)$ dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), a family of quantum many-body systems with soluble non-equilibrium quantum dynamics. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-01 Xueda Wen , Yingfei Gu , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ruihua Fan

We formulate two-dimensional rational conformal field theory as a natural generalization of two-dimensional lattice topological field theory. To this end we lift various structures from complex vector spaces to modular tensor categories.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Fuchs , I. Runkel , C. Schweigert

We demonstrate that for general conformal field theories (CFTs), the entanglement for small perturbations of the vacuum is organized in a novel holographic way. For spherical entangling regions in a constant time slice, perturbations in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-15 Jan de Boer , Michal P. Heller , Robert C. Myers , Yasha Neiman

We construct the stress-energy tensor correlation functions in probabilistic Liouville Conformal Field Theory (LCFT) on the two-dimensional sphere by studying the variation of the LCFT correlation functions with respect to a smooth…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Antti Kupiainen , Joona Oikarinen

After a brief review of the historical role of analyticity in the study of critical phenomena, an account is given of recent discoveries of discretely holomorphic observables in critical two-dimensional lattice models. These are objects…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 John Cardy

Originating in theoretical physics, Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) has been an important topic in probability theory and mathematical physics in the past two decades. In this proceeding, we review two aspects of this topic. The first is…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Nina Holden , Xin Sun

We use the Virasoro master equation to study the space of Lie h-invariant conformal field theories, which includes the standard rational conformal field theories as a small subspace. In a detailed example, we apply the general theory to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 M. B. Halpern , E. B. Kiritsis , N. A. Obers

To pave the way for the journey from geometry to conformal field theory (CFT), these notes present the background for some basic CFT constructions from Calabi-Yau geometry. Topics include the complex and Kaehler geometry of Calabi-Yau…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Katrin Wendland

Conformal quantum field theory is reviewed in the perspective of Axiomatic, notably Algebraic QFT. This theory is particularly developped in two spacetime dimensions, where many rigorous constructions are possible, as well as some complete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-22 Karl-Henning Rehren

One of the many remarkable properties of conformal field theory in two dimensions is its connection to algebraic geometry. Since every compact Riemann surface is a projective algebraic curve, many constructions of interest in physics (which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-05 Matthew Heydeman , Matilde Marcolli , Ingmar Saberi , Bogdan Stoica

In this article we develop a concise description of the global geometry which is underlying the universal construction of all possible generalised Stochastic L{\oe}wner Evolutions. The main ingredient is the Universal Grassmannian of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-30 Roland M. Friedrich

We review how modular categories, and commutative and non-commutative Frobenius algebras arise in rational conformal field theory. For Euclidean CFT we use an approach based on sewing of surfaces, and in the Minkowskian case we describe CFT…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-02-24 Liang Kong , Ingo Runkel

Schramm-Loewner evolution appears as the scaling limit of interfaces in lattice models at critical point. Critical behavior of these models can be described by minimal models of conformal field theory. Certain CFT correlation functions are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-10 Anton Nazarov

In this thesis we analyse three aspects of Conformal Field Theories (CFTs). First, we consider correlation functions of descendant states in two-dimensional CFTs. We discuss a recursive formula to calculate them and provide a computer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-23 Matteo Broccoli

These lectures were prepared to be presented at A.A. Belavin seminar on CFT at Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. We review bosonization of CFT and show how it can be applied to the studying of representations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Lukyanov , Yaroslav Pugai

The diffeomorphism action lifted on truncated (chiral) Taylor expansion of a complex scalar field over a Riemann surface is presented in the paper under the name of large diffeomorphisms. After an heuristic approach, we show how a linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Giuseppe Bandelloni , Serge Lazzarini

Logarithmic conformal field theory is a rich and vibrant area of modern mathematical physics with well-known applications to both condensed matter theory and string theory. Our limited understanding of these theories is based upon detailed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-09 Thomas Creutzig , David Ridout

In 1987 Graeme Segal gave a functorial definition of Conformal Field Theory (CFT) that was designed to capture the mathematical essence of the Conformal Bootstrap formalism pioneered in physics by Belavin-Polyakov-Zamolodchikov. In Segal's…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Colin Guillarmou , Antti Kupiainen , Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas