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We derive various properties of symmetric product orbifolds of $T\bar{T}$ and $J\bar{T}$ - deformed CFTs from a field-theoretical perspective. First, we generalise the known formula for the torus partition function of a symmetric orbifold…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-17 Soumangsu Chakraborty , Silvia Georgescu , Monica Guica

We present a generalisation of the embedding space formalism to conformal field theories (CFTs) on non-trivial states and curved backgrounds, based on the ambient metric of Fefferman and Graham. The ambient metric is a Lorentzian Ricci-flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-05 Enrico Parisini , Kostas Skenderis , Benjamin Withers

We formulate rational conformal field theory in terms of a symmetric special Frobenius algebra A and its representations. A is an algebra in the modular tensor category of Moore-Seiberg data of the underlying chiral CFT. The multiplication…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jürgen Fuchs , Ingo Runkel , Christoph Schweigert

Starting from an abelian rigid braided monoidal category C we define an abelian rigid monoidal category C_F which captures some aspects of perturbed conformal defects in two-dimensional conformal field theory. Namely, for V a rational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-23 Dimitrios Manolopoulos , Ingo Runkel

Entanglement is resolved in conformal field theory (CFT) with respect to conformal families to all orders in the UV cutoff. To leading order, symmetry-resolved entanglement is connected to the quantum dimension of a conformal family, while…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-10 Christian Northe

By a conformal string in Euclidean space is meant a closed critical curve with non-constant conformal curvatures of the conformal arclength functional. We prove that (1) the set of conformal classes of conformal strings is in 1-1…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Emilio Musso , Lorenzo Nicolodi

This note presents a purely geometric construction of the so-called twist-field correlation functions in Conformal Field Theory (CFT), derived from conical singularities. This approach provides a purely mathematical interpretation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-03 Benoit Estienne , Jiasheng Lin

Recently an efficient numerical method has been developed to implement the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity on the operator dimensions and OPE coefficients of conformal field theories (CFT) in diverse space-time dimensions. It…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-30 Ferdinando Gliozzi

Conformal field theory (CFT) plays a key role in modern theoretical physics. Through CFT we describe real physical systems at criticality and fixed points of the renormalization group flow. It is also central in the study of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-19 Giulia Peveri

Although logarithmic conformal field theories (LCFTs) are known not to factorise many previous findings have only been formulated on their chiral halves. Making only mild and rather general assumptions on the structure of an chiral LCFT we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Anne-Ly Do , Michael Flohr

In this article, we propose the realization of conformal manifolds, which are smooth manifolds of scale-conformal invariant interacting Hamiltonians in two-dimensional quantum many-body systems. Such phenomena can occur in various…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-23 Saran Vijayan , Fei Zhou

The purpose of this article is to present a short review of local conformal symmetry in curved 4d space-time. Furthermore we discuss the conformal anomaly and anomaly-induced effective actions. Despite the conformal symmetry is always…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-25 Ilya L. Shapiro

In its Euclidean formulation, the AdS/CFT correspondence begins as a study of Yang-Mills conformal field theories on the sphere, S^4. It has been successfully extended, however, to S^1 X S^3 and to the torus T^4. It is natural to hope that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-23 Brett McInnes

We consider two-dimensional chiral, first-order conformal field theories governing maps from the Riemann sphere to the projective light cone inside Minkowski space -- the natural setting for describing conformal field theories in two fewer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Tim Adamo , Ricardo Monteiro , Miguel F. Paulos

Groundstates of 1+1d conformal field theories (CFTs) satisfy a local entropic condition called the vector fixed point equation. This condition is surprisingly well satisfied by groundstates of quantum critical lattice models even at small…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-08 Xiang Li , Ting-Chun Lin , John McGreevy

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with MN and tetragonal global symmetry in $d=2+1$ dimensions are relevant for structural, antiferromagnetic and helimagnetic phase transitions in a wide class of materials. The study of these theories with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-23 Andreas Stergiou

This paper is a review of open-closed rational conformal field theory (CFT) via the theory of vertex operator algebras (VOAs), together with a proposal of a new geometry based on CFTs and D-branes. We will start with an outline of the idea…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2011-07-20 Liang Kong

We study quantum field theories which have quantum groups as global internal symmetries. We show that in such theories operators are generically non-local, and should be thought as living at the ends of topological lines. We describe the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-25 Barak Gabai , Victor Gorbenko , Jiaxin Qiao , Bernardo Zan , Aleksandr Zhabin

We propose a Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) for continuous spacetime symmetries. For a $d$-dimensional theory, it is given by a $(d+1)$-dimensional BF-theory for the spacetime symmetry group, and whenever $d$ is even, it can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Fabio Apruzzi , Nicola Dondi , Iñaki García Etxebarria , Ho Tat Lam , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

We study the sewing constraints for rational two-dimensional conformal field theory on oriented surfaces with possibly non-empty boundary. The boundary condition is taken to be the same on all segments of the boundary. The following…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-26 Jens Fjelstad , Jurgen Fuchs , Ingo Runkel , Christoph Schweigert