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We consider chiral fermionic conformal field theories (CFTs) constructed from lattices and investigate their orbifolds under reflection and shift $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetries. For lattices based on binary error-correcting codes, we show the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-20 Kohki Kawabata , Shinichiro Yahagi

We consider supersymmetric conformal quantum field theories (SCFTs) with degrees of freedom labeled by lattice data. We will assume that in terms of the corresponding lattice the interactions are nearest neighbor and exactly marginal. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-21 Shlomo S. Razamat , Michal Shemesh , Aelly Zeltzer

Three-dimensional Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory has the peculiar property that its one-form symmetry defects have non-trivial braiding, namely they are charged under the same symmetry they generate, which is then anomalous. This poses a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-07 Riccardo Argurio , Francesco Benini , Matteo Bertolini , Giovanni Galati , Pierluigi Niro

We propose the Symmetry TFT for theories with a $U(1)$ symmetry in arbitrary dimension. The Symmetry TFT describes the structure of the symmetry, its anomalies, and the possible topological manipulations. It is constructed as a BF theory of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-03 Andrea Antinucci , Francesco Benini

Motivated by the three-dimensional topological field theory / two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) correspondence, we study a broad class of one-dimensional quantum mechanical models, known as anyonic chains, that can give rise to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Matthew Buican , Andrey Gromov

We define a "sutured topological quantum field theory", motivated by the study of sutured Floer homology of product 3-manifolds, and contact elements. We study a rich algebraic structure of suture elements in sutured TQFT, showing that it…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Daniel V. Mathews

Carrollian conformal field theories (carrollian CFTs) are natural field theories on null infinity of an asymptotically flat spacetime or, in general, geometries with conformal carrollian structure. Using a basis transformation,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-13 Jakob Salzer

We set up a strategy for studying large families of logarithmic conformal field theories by using the enlarged symmetries and non--semi-simple associative algebras appearing in their lattice regularizations (as discussed in a companion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Read , H. Saleur

We propose a method for analyzing two-dimensional symmetry protected topological (SPT) wavefunctions using a correspondence with conformal field theories (CFTs) and integrable lattice models. This method generalizes the CFT approach for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-09 Thomas Scaffidi , Zohar Ringel

We construct 3-dimensional once-Extended Topological Quantum Field Theories (ETQFTs for short) out of (possibly non-semisimple) modular categories, and we explicitly identify linear categories and functors in their image. The circle…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Marco De Renzi

The general form of a 2D conformal field theory (CFT) correlator on a Euclidean Riemann surface, Lorentzian plane or Lorentzian cylinder is well-known. This paper describes the general form of 2- and 3-point CFT correlators on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-24 Walker Melton , Atul Sharma , Andrew Strominger

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 discuss in this paper the lattice discretizations of all topological defect lines (TDLs) for diagonal, minimal CFTs, using integrable restricted solid-on-solid (RSOS) models. For these CFTs, the TDLs can be labeled by the Kac labels. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-05 Madhav Sinha , Thiago Silva Tavares , Ananda Roy , Hubert Saleur

We study the quasiclassical expansion associated with a complex curve. In a more specific context this is the 1/N expansion in U(N)-invariant matrix integrals. We compare two approaches, the CFT approach and the topological recursion, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-17 Ivan Kostov , Nicolas Orantin

We initiate the study of supersymmetry-preserving topological defect lines (TDLs) in the Conway moonshine module $V^{f \natural}$. We show that the tensor category of such defects, under suitable assumptions, admits a surjective but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-27 Roberta Angius , Stefano Giaccari , Sarah M. Harrison , Roberto Volpato

Scalar-fermion models, such as the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa model, admit natural $1d$ defects given by the exponential of a scalar field integrated along a straight line. In $4-\varepsilon$ dimensions the defect coupling is weakly relevant and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-29 Julien Barrat , Pedro Liendo , Philine van Vliet

We construct Symmetry Topological Field Theories (SymTFTs) for continuous subsystem symmetries, which are inherently non-Lorentz-invariant. Our framework produces dual bulk descriptions -- gapped foliated and exotic SymTFTs -- that generate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-06 Fabio Apruzzi , Francesco Bedogna , Salvo Mancani

We construct topological quantum field theories (TQFTs) and commuting projector Hamiltonians for any 1+1d gapped phases with non-anomalous fusion category symmetries, i.e. finite symmetries that admit SPT phases. The construction is based…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-14 Kansei Inamura

In this work we study particular TQFTs in three dimensions, known as Symmetry Topological Field Theories (or SymTFTs), to identify line defects of two-dimensional CFTs arising from the compactification of 6d $(2,0)$ SCFTs on 4-manifolds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-26 Jin Chen , Wei Cui , Babak Haghighat , Yi-Nan Wang

A challenge in the study of conformal field theory (CFT) is to characterize the possible defects in specific bulk CFTs. Given the success of numerical bootstrap techniques applied to the characterization of bulk CFTs, it is desirable to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-16 Ryan A. Lanzetta , Shang Liu , Max A. Metlitski