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The functorial mathematical definition of conformal field theory was first formulated approximately 30 years ago. The underlying geometric category is based on the moduli space of Riemann surfaces with parametrized boundary components and…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2017-06-09 David Radnell , Eric Schippers , Wolfgang Staubach

Some mathematical questions relating to Coset Conformal Field Theories (CFT) are considered in the framework of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory as developed previously by us. We consider the issue of fixed point resolution in the diagonal…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Feng Xu

Using orbifold Hilbert schemes, we compactify all two-dimensional Hitchin systems corresponding to types A0-tilde, D4-tilde, E6-tilde, E7-tilde, and E8-tilde, thereby obtaining four rational elliptic surfaces with C*-actions. Their singular…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Yonghong Huang

We study surface operators in 3d Topological Field Theory and their relations with 2d Rational Conformal Field Theory. We show that a surface operator gives rise to a consistent gluing of chiral and anti-chiral sectors in the 2d RCFT. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Anton Kapustin , Natalia Saulina

Since the definition of $T\bar{T}$ deformation in the curved Riemann surface is obstructive in the literature, we propose a way to do the deformation in the genus two Riemann surfaces by sewing prescription. We construct the correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-04 Song He , Yun-Ze Li

We introduce a family of variational functionals for spinor fields on a compact Riemann surface $M$ that can be used to find close-to-conformal immersions of $M$ into $\mathbb{R}^3$ in a prescribed regular homotopy class. Numerical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Albert Chern , Felix Knöppel , Franz Pedit , Ulrich Pinkall , Peter Schröder

We consider the holographic computation of two dimensional conformal field theory partition functions on non-orientable surfaces. We classify the three dimensional geometries that give bulk saddle point contributions to the partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-07 Alexander Maloney , Simon F. Ross

We study conformal field theories (CFTs) on curved spaces including both orientable and unorientable manifolds possibly with boundaries. We first review conformal transformations on curved manifolds. We then compute the identity components…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-24 Ken Kikuchi

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

We extend the modular orbits method of constructing a two-dimensional orbifold conformal field theory to higher genus Riemann surfaces. We find that partition functions on surfaces of arbitrary genus can be constructed by a straightforward…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-27 Daniel Robbins , Thomas Vandermeulen

Using the F-theory realization, we identify a subclass of 6d (1,0) SCFTs whose compactification on a Riemann surface leads to N = 1 4d SCFTs where the moduli space of the Riemann surface is part of the moduli space of the theory. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 David R. Morrison , Cumrun Vafa

We discuss the problem to develop a mathematical theory of a certain class of nonrational conformal field theories (CFT) which contain the unitary CFT. A variant of the concept of a modular functor is proposed that appears to be suitable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-03-07 J. Teschner

We construct Narain conformal field theories (CFTs) from quantum subsystem codes, a more comprehensive class of quantum error-correcting codes than quantum stabilizer codes, for qudit systems of prime dimensions. The resulting code CFTs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-26 Keiichi Ando , Kohki Kawabata , Tatsuma Nishioka

Toda Conformal Field Theories (CFTs hereafter) are generalizations of Liouville CFT where the underlying field is no longer scalar but takes values in a finite-dimensional vector space induced by a complex simple Lie algebra. The goal of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Baptiste Cerclé , Nathan Huguenin

First steps are taken in a project to construct a general class of conformal and perhaps, eventually, non-conformal quantum field theories of (n-1)-dimensional extended objects in a d=2n dimensional conformal space-time manifold M. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-12 Daniel Friedan

We investigate exactly solvable two-dimensional conformal field theories that exist at generic values of the central charge, and that interpolate between A-series or D-series minimal models. When the central charge becomes rational,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Sylvain Ribault

We present a collection of numerical bootstrap computations for 3d CFTs with a U(1) global symmetry. We test the accuracy of our method and fix conventions through a computation of bounds on the OPE coefficients for low-lying operators in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-28 Samuel Bartlett-Tisdall , Christopher P. Herzog , Vladimir Schaub

A mathematical construction of the conformal field theory (CFT) associated to a compact torus, also called the "nonlinear Sigma-model" or "lattice-CFT", is given. Underlying this approach to CFT is a unitary modular functor, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-25 Hessel Posthuma

We find an intriguing relation between a class of 3-dimensional non-unitary topological field theories (TFTs) and Virasoro minimal models $M(2,2r+3)$ with $r \geq 1$. The TFTs are constructed by topologically twisting $3d$ ${\mathcal N}=4$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-16 Dongmin Gang , Heeyeon Kim , Spencer Stubbs

We give a general construction of correlation functions in rational conformal field theory on a possibly non-orientable surface with boundary in terms of 3-dimensional topological quantum field theory. The construction applies to any…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Felder , Jürg Fröhlich , Jürgen Fuchs , Christoph Schweigert