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We use the embedding formalism to construct conformal fields in $D$ dimensions, by restricting Lorentz-invariant ensembles of homogeneous neural networks in $(D+2)$ dimensions to the projective null cone. Conformal correlators may be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 James Halverson , Joydeep Naskar , Jiahua Tian

Conformal nets are a classical topic in quantum field theory: they assign operator algebras to one-dimensional manifolds, and have close connections with one-dimensional topological field theories. It seems to be well-known that the usual…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-24 Jack Morava

The paper contains a survey of train constructions for infinite symmetric groups and related groups. For certain pairs (a group $G$, a subgroup $K$), we construct categories, whose morphisms are two-dimensional surfaces tiled by polygons…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Yury A. Neretin

Let $X$ be a smooth, pointed Riemann surface of genus zero, and $G$ a simple, simply-connected complex algebraic group. Associated to a finite number of weights of $G$ and a level is a vector space called the space of conformal blocks, and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Michael Schuster

We introduce a full set of rules to directly express all $M$-point conformal blocks in one- and two-dimensional conformal field theories, irrespective of the topology. The $M$-point conformal blocks are power series expansion in some…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-17 Jean-François Fortin , Wen-Jie Ma , Witold Skiba

We introduce a family of boundary conditions and point constraints for conformal immersions that increase the controllability of surfaces defined as minimizers of conformal variational problems. Our free boundary conditions fix the metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Yousuf Soliman , Ulrich Pinkall , Peter Schröder

In this paper we study representations of conformal nets associated with positive definite even lattices and their orbifolds with respect to isometries of the lattices. Using previous general results on orbifolds, we give a list of all…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Chongying Dong , Feng Xu

We use string-net models to accomplish a direct, purely two-dimensional, approach to correlators of two-dimensional rational conformal field theories. We obtain concise geometric expressions for the objects describing bulk and boundary…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Jürgen Fuchs , Christoph Schweigert , Yang Yang

Based on any chiral vertex operator algebra satisfying a suitable finiteness condition, the semisimplicity of the zero-mode algebra as well as a regularity for induced modules, we construct conformal field theory over the projective line…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kiyokazu Nagatomo , Akihiro Tsuchiya

We show that a compact rigid balanced braided monoidal category with enough compact projective objects gives rise to a system of mapping class group representations compatible with the gluing along marked intervals. A motivation to consider…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Deniz Yeral

In this short note, we classify linear categorified open topological field theories in dimension two by pivotal Grothendieck-Verdier categories, a type of monoidal category equipped with a weak, not necessarily rigid duality. In combination…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Lukas Müller , Lukas Woike

We show that the conformal blocks constructed in the previous article by the first and the third author may be described as certain integrals in equivariant cohomology. When the bundles of conformal blocks have rank one, this construction…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-22 R. Rimányi , V. Schechtman , A. Varchenko

We introduce a method for computing conformal blocks of operators in arbitrary Lorentz representations in any spacetime dimension, making it possible to apply bootstrap techniques to operators with spin. The key idea is to implement the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-23 David Simmons-Duffin

For conformal field theories in arbitrary dimensions, we introduce a method to derive the conformal blocks corresponding to the exchange of a traceless symmetric tensor appearing in four point functions of operators with spin. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-31 Miguel S. Costa , Joao Penedones , David Poland , Slava Rychkov

We present a general construction of all correlation functions of a two-dimensional rational conformal field theory, for an arbitrary number of bulk and boundary fields and arbitrary topologies. The correlators are expressed in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Felder , J. Fr"ohlich , J. Fuchs , C. Schweigert

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

$Vect(N)$, the algebra of vector fields in $N$ dimensions, is studied. Some aspects of local differential geometry are formulated as $Vect(N)$ representation theory. There is a new class of modules, {\it conformal fields}, whose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 T. A. Larsson

For a vertex operator algebra $V$, one may naturally define spaces of conformal blocks following a construction of Frenkel-Ben-Zvi generalized by Damiolini-Gibney-Tarasca. If $V$ is strongly rational, these spaces of conformal blocks form…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Chiara Damiolini , Lukas Woike

The explicit computation of higher-point conformal blocks in any dimension is usually a challenging task. For two-dimensional conformal field theories in Euclidean signature, the oscillator formalism proves to be very efficient. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-15 Martin Ammon , Jakob Hollweck , Tobias Hössel , Katharina Wölfl

Given a completely rational conformal net A on the circle, its fusion ring acts faithfully on the K_0-group of a certain universal C*-algebra associated to A, as shown in a previous paper. We prove here that this action can actually be…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Sebastiano Carpi , Roberto Conti , Robin Hillier