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We construct fermionic conformal field theories (CFTs) whose spectra are characterized by quantum stabilizer codes. We exploit our construction to search for fermionic CFTs with supersymmetry by focusing on quantum stabilizer codes of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-04 Kohki Kawabata , Tatsuma Nishioka , Takuya Okuda

We explore a "genus-2" crossing equation obeyed by CFTs in general dimensions $d\geq 2$. This crossing equation relates two different decompositions of the "genus-2 partition function" -- namely the partition function on the connected sum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-12 David Simmons-Duffin , Yixin Xu

It is well-known that conformal embeddings can be used to construct non-diagonal modular invariants for affine lie algebras. This idea can be extended to construct infinite series of non-diagonal modular invariants for coset CFTs. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Dushyant Kumar , Menika Sharma

The affine $su(3)$ modular invariant partition functions in 2d RCFT are associated with a set of generalized Coxeter graphs. These partition functions fall into two classes, the block-diagonal (Type I) and the non block-diagonal (Type II)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Hammaoui , G. Schieber , E. H. Tahri

We continue to investigate properties of the worldsheet conformal field theories (CFTs) which are conjectured to be dual to free large N gauge theories, using the mapping of Feynman diagrams to the worldsheet suggested in hep-th/0504229.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ofer Aharony , Justin R. David , Rajesh Gopakumar , Zohar Komargodski , Shlomo S. Razamat

We introduce a framework for two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) in the language of analytic number theory. Attached to the torus partition function of every two-dimensional CFT is a self-dual, degree-4 $L$-function of root number…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-29 Eric Perlmutter

We prove the equivalence of a class of generalised Schur partition functions $\mathcal Z_G(q;\alpha)$ of 4d $\mathcal N=2$ superconformal gauge theories to contour integral representations of vector-valued modular forms of the type that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 A. Ramesh Chandra , Sunil Mukhi , Palash Singh

This is an invited contribution to the 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics. We review the following algebraic structures which appear in two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT): The symmetries of two-dimensional…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Jürgen Fuchs , Christoph Schweigert , Simon Wood , Yang Yang

We study gauging operations (or group extensions) in (smeared) boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs) and bulk conformal field theories, and their applications to various phenomena in topologically ordered systems. We apply the resultant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-22 Yoshiki Fukusumi

We investigate the gauging of a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry in Narain conformal field theories (CFTs) constructed from qudit stabilizer codes. Considering both orbifold and fermionization, we establish a connection between $\mathbb{Z}_2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-03 Kohki Kawabata , Tatsuma Nishioka , Takuya Okuda

The goal of this work is to describe a categorical formalism for (Extended) Topological Quantum Field Theories (TQFTs) and present them as functors from a suitable category of cobordisms with corners to a linear category, generalizing 2d…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2011-08-29 Mark Feshbach , Alexander A. Voronov

We compute genus two partition functions in two dimensional conformal field theories at large central charge, focusing on surfaces that give the third Renyi entropy of two intervals. We compute this for generalized free theories and for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Alexandre Belin , Christoph A. Keller , Ida G. Zadeh

We propose a prescription for describing correlation functions in higher-dimensional defect conformal field theories (DCFTs) by those in ancillary conformal field theories (CFTs) without defects, which is a vast generalization of the image…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-09 Tatsuma Nishioka , Yoshitaka Okuyama , Soichiro Shimamori

We apply the theory of harmonic analysis on the fundamental domain of $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$ to partition functions of two-dimensional conformal field theories. We decompose the partition function of $c$ free bosons on a Narain lattice into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-31 Nathan Benjamin , Scott Collier , A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Alexander Maloney , Eric Perlmutter

The concept and the construction of modular graph functions are generalized from genus-one to higher genus surfaces. The integrand of the four-graviton superstring amplitude at genus-two provides a generating function for a special class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Eric D'Hoker , Michael B. Green , Boris Pioline

We consider those two-dimensional rational conformal field theories (RCFTs) whose chiral algebras, when maximally extended, are isomorphic to the current algebra formed from some affine non-twisted Kac--Moody algebra at fixed level. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Gannon , P. Ruelle , M. Walton

In this work we study families of $\mathbb{Z}_2$ orbifolds of toroidal conformal field theories based on both factorizable and non-factorizable target space tori. For these classes of theories, we analyze their moduli spaces, and compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-26 Stefan Forste , Hans Jockers , Joshua Kames-King , Alexandros Kanargias , Ida G. Zadeh

In this paper, we study the Carrollian and Galilean conformal field theories (CCFT and GCFT) in $d>2$ dimensions. We construct the highest weight representations (HWR) of Carrollian and Galilean conformal algebra (CCA and GCA). Even though…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Bin Chen , Reiko Liu , Yu-fan Zheng

We discuss string theory methods for the study of strongly coupled holographic defect conformal field theories (CFTs) which are dual to probe-brane systems. First, we examine whether the string theory duals of such defect CFTs are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-22 Georgios Linardopoulos

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with $U(m)\times U(n)$ global symmetry in $d=3$ dimensions have been studied for years due to their potential relevance to the chiral phase transition of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). In this work such CFTs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-30 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou