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We first generalize the logarithmic tensor category theory of Huang-Lepowsky-Zhang to the more general case that the module category for a vertex operator algebra $V$ (more generally a M\"{o}bius vertex algebra) might not be closed under…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Yi-Zhi Huang

This lecture note covers topics on boundary conformal field theory, modular transformations and the Verlinde formula, and boundary logarithmic CFT. An introductory review on CFT with boundary and a discussion of its applications to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Shinsuke Kawai

This is the second part in a series of papers in which we introduce and develop a natural, general tensor category theory for suitable module categories for a vertex (operator) algebra. In this paper (Part II), we develop logarithmic formal…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2012-05-14 Yi-Zhi Huang , James Lepowsky , Lin Zhang

In the spirit of the geometric approach to two-dimensional conformal field theory, we explicitly associate to every holomorphic vertex operator algebra a section of a power of Hodge line bundle on the moduli space of curves of arbitrary…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Sebastiano Carpi , Giulio Codogni

We formulate the unitary rational orbifold conformal field theories in the algebraic quantum field theory framework. Under general conditions, we show that the orbifold of a given unitary rational conformal field theories generates a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Feng Xu

We discuss some properties of the tower of mapping class group representations associated to a Rational Conformal Field Theory. In particular, after reviewing the elementary properties of the modular representation, we discuss the Galois…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 P. Bantay

Algebra and representation theory in modular tensor categories can be combined with tools from topological field theory to obtain a deeper understanding of rational conformal field theories in two dimensions: It allows us to establish the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Jürg Fröhlich , Jürgen Fuchs , Ingo Runkel , Christoph Schweigert

We discuss a recent proof by the author of a general version of the Verlinde conjecture in the framework of vertex operator algebras and the application of this result to the construction of modular tensor tensor category structure on the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yi-Zhi Huang

For some time now, conformal field theories in two dimensions have been studied as integrable systems. Much of the success of these studies is related to the existence of an operator algebra of the theory. In this paper, some of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Jasbir Nagi

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

Rational chiral conformal field theories are organized according to their genus, which consists of a modular tensor category $\mathcal{C}$ and a central charge $c$. A long-term goal is to classify unitary rational conformal field theories…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 James E. Tener , Zhenghan Wang

A modular category $\mathcal{C}$ gives rise to a differential graded modular functor, i.e. a system of projective mapping class group representations on chain complexes. This differential graded modular functor assigns to the torus the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2023-07-03 Christoph Schweigert , Lukas Woike

For a finitely-generated vertex operator algebra of central charge c, a locally convex topological completion is constructed. We construct on the completion a structure of an algebra over the operad of the c/2-th power of the determinant…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yi-Zhi Huang

Modular functors, i.e. consistent systems of projective representations of mapping class groups of surfaces, have been constructed for non-semisimple modular categories already decades ago. Concepts from homological algebra have not been…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Christoph Schweigert , Lukas Woike

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

After a brief review of recent rigorous results concerning the representation theory of rational chiral conformal field theories (RCQFTs) we focus on pairs (A,F) of conformal field theories, where F has a finite group G of global symmetries…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Mueger

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 show that C_2-cofiniteness is enough to prove a modular invariance property of vertex operator algebras without assuming the semisimplicity of Zhu algebra. For example, if a VOA V=\oplus_{m=0}^{\infty}V_m is C_2-cofinite, then the space…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Masahiko Miyamoto

Let V be a simple vertex operator algebra satisfying the following conditions: (i) The homogeneous subspaces of V of weights less than 0 are 0, the homogeneous subspace of V of weight 0 is spanned by the vacuum and V' is isomorphic to V as…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Yi-Zhi Huang

The main result is that the category of ordinary modules of an affine vertex operator algebra of a simply laced Lie algebra at admissible level is rigid and thus a braided fusion category. If the level satisfies a certain coprime property…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Thomas Creutzig