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We give an equivalence of categories between: (i) M\"obius vertex algebras which are equipped with a choice of generating family of quasiprimary vectors, and (ii) (not-necessarily-unitary) M\"obius-covariant Wightman conformal field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Sebastiano Carpi , Christopher Raymond , Yoh Tanimoto , James E. Tener

We classify all two-dimensional, unitary, rational conformal field theories with two primaries, central charge $c<25$, and arbitrary Wronskian index. In mathematical parlance, we classify all strongly regular vertex operator algebras (VOAs)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-04 Sunil Mukhi , Brandon C. Rayhaun

We introduce a novel class of two-dimensional non-unitary rational conformal field theories (RCFTs) whose modular data are identical to the generalized Haagerup-Izumi modular data. Via the bulk-boundary correspondence, they are related to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-28 Dongmin Gang , Dongyeob Kim , Sungjay Lee

Chiral orbifold models are defined as gauge field theories with a finite gauge group $\Gamma$. We start with a conformal current algebra A associated with a connected compact Lie group G and a negative definite integral invariant bilinear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Victor G. Kac , Ivan T. Todorov

All unitary Rational Conformal Field Theories (RCFT) are conjectured to be related to unitary coset Conformal Field Theories, i.e., gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) models with compact gauge groups. In this paper we use subfactor theory and…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Feng Xu

To an RCFT corresponds two combinatorial structures: the amplitude of a torus (the 1-loop partition function of a closed string, sometimes called a modular invariant), and a representation of the fusion ring (called a NIM-rep or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Gannon

The non-linear W_{\infty}[\mu] symmetry algebra underlies the duality between the W_N minimal model CFTs and the hs[\mu] higher spin theory on AdS_3. It is shown how the structure of this symmetry algebra at the quantum level, i.e. for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Matthias R. Gaberdiel , Rajesh Gopakumar

We formulate a correspondence between non-relativistic conformal field theories (NRCFTs) in d-1 spatial dimensions and gravitational theories in AdS_{d+2} backgrounds with one compactified lightlike direction. The breaking of the maximal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-05 Walter D. Goldberger

Hecke operators relate characters of rational conformal field theories (RCFTs) with different central charges, and extend the previously studied Galois symmetry of modular representations and fusion algebras. We show that the conductor $N$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Jeffrey A. Harvey , Yichen Hu , Yuxiao Wu

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

For W_N minimal model CFT's at Large N, we formulate a nonlinear field theory of primary operators. A classification of single-trace operators is given first based on which an interacting field theory operating in Fock space is built. A…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Antal Jevicki , Junggi Yoon

We propose gauge theory/gravity duality involving conformal theories based on U(N+k|k) gauge groups. We show that to all orders in 1/N these non-unitary theories based on supergroups are indistinguishable from the corresponding unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-11 Cumrun Vafa

We attempt to generalize the AdS/CFT correspondence to non-relativistic conformal field theories which are invariant under Galilean transformations. Such systems govern ultracold atoms at unitarity, nucleon scattering in some channels, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Koushik Balasubramanian , John McGreevy

We propose bulk 3D N=4 rank-0 superconformal field theories, which are related to 2D N=1 supersymmetric minimal models, SM(2, ...) and SM(3, ...), via recently discovered non-unitary bulk-boundary correspondence. The correspondence relates…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-04 Seungjoo Baek , Dongmin Gang

Known examples of unitary relativistic scale but not conformal-invariant field theories (SFTs) can be embedded into conventional conformal field theories (CFTs). We show that any SFT which is a subsector of a unitary CFT is a free theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-13 Anatoly Dymarsky , Alexander Zhiboedov

By interpreting the fusion matrix as an adjacency matrix we associate a loop model to every primary operator of a generic conformal field theory. The weight of these loop models is given by the quantum dimension of the corresponding primary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-26 M. A. Rajabpour

This article reviews some recent progress in our understanding of the structure of Rational Conformal Field Theories, based on ideas that originate for a large part in the work of A. Ocneanu. The consistency conditions that generalize…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Valentina Petkova , Jean-Bernard Zuber

We consider the fusion algebras arising in e.g. Wess-Zumino-Witten conformal field theories, affine Kac-Moody algebras at positive integer level, and quantum groups at roots of unity. Using properties of the modular matrix $S$, we find…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-11-26 T. Gannon , M. A. Walton

The Ward identities of the Liouville gravity coupled to the minimal conformal matter are investigated. We introduce the pseudo-null fields and the generalized equations of motion, which are classified into series of the Liouville charges.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ken-ji Hamada

We investigate the limit of minimal model conformal field theories where the central charge approaches one. We conjecture that this limit is described by a non-rational CFT of central charge one. The limiting theory is different from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 I. Runkel , G. M. T. Watts
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