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Using canonical quantization we find the Virasoro centre for a class of conformally-invariant interacting Wess-Zumino-Witten theories. The theories have a group structure similar to that of Toda theories (both abelian and non-abelian) but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 C. Ford , L. O'Raifeartaigh

We analyze unoriented Wess-Zumino-Witten models from a geometrical point of view. We show that the geometric interpretation of simple current crosscap states is as centre orientifold planes localized on conjugacy classes of the group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 L. R. Huiszoon , K. Schalm , A. N. Schellekens

We develop a new method for decomposing Witten diagrams into conformal blocks. The steps involved are elementary, requiring no explicit integration, and operate directly in position space. Central to this construction is an appealingly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Eliot Hijano , Per Kraus , Eric Perlmutter , River Snively

We solve the regularized Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation and find an explicit expression for the Drinfeld associator. We restrict to the case of the fundamental representation of $gl(N)$. Several tests of the results are presented. It can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-04 Petr Dunin-Barkowski , Alexey Sleptsov , Andrey Smirnov

In this work, we exploit the operator content of the $(D_{4}, A_{6})$ conformal algebra. By constructing a $Z_{2}$-invariants fusion rules of a chosen subalgebra and by resolving the bootstrap equations consistent with these rules, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Balaska , K. Demmouche

The algebra of linear and quadratic functions of basic observables on the phase space of either the free particle or the harmonic oscillator possesses a finite-dimensional anomaly. The quantization of these systems outside the critical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Calixto , V. Aldaya , J. Guerrero

Codes considered as structures within unit schemes greatly extends the availability of linear block and convolutional codes and allows the construction of these codes to required length, rate, distance and type. Properties of a code emanate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ted Hurley

Finite covers are a technique for building new structures from simpler ones. The original motivation to study finite covers is in the Ladder theorem of Zilber which describes how totally categorical structures are built from strictly…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Elisabetta Pastori

Representations of the (Lorentz) conformal group with the soft operators as highest weight vectors have two universal properties, which we clearly state in this paper. Given a soft operator with a certain dimension and spin, the first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Shamik Banerjee , Pranjal Pandey

We show how to deal with screening charges involving fractional powers of free fields. This enables us to use the free field Wakimoto construction to obtain complete expressions for integral representations of conformal blocks for N-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 J. L. Petersen , J. Rasmussen , M. Yu

We propose a simple geometrical construction of topological invariants of 3-strand Brownian braids viewed as world lines of 3 particles performing independent Brownian motions in the complex plane z. Our construction is based on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Sergei Nechaev , Raphael Voituriez

Conformal nets provide a mathematical formalism for conformal field theory. Associated to a conformal net with finite index, we give a construction of the `bundle of conformal blocks', a representation of the mapping class groupoid of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-23 Arthur Bartels , Christopher L. Douglas , André Henriques

In these notes we consider integrable structure of the conformal field theory with the algebra of symmetries $\mathcal{A}=W_{n}\otimes H$, where $W_{n}$ is $W-$algebra and $H$ is Heisenberg algebra. We found the system of commuting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-14 V. A. Fateev , A. V. Litvinov

We study two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with boundaries via the conformal bootstrap. We derive a positive semi-definite program from crossing symmetry of three observables: the annulus partition function, the two-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-24 Marco Meineri , Bharathkumar Radhakrishnan

A simple, combinatorial construction of the sl(n)-WZNW fusion ring, also known as Verlinde algebra, is given. As a byproduct of the construction one obtains an isomorphism between the fusion ring and a particular quotient of the small…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-20 Christian Korff , Catharina Stroppel

We study general properties of the conformal basis, the space of wavefunctions in $(d+2)$-dimensional Minkowski space that are primaries of the Lorentz group $SO(1,d+1)$. Scattering amplitudes written in this basis have the same symmetry as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Ho Tat Lam , Shu-Heng Shao

I discuss a scaling limit, where open strings in the WZW-model behave as dipoles with charges confined to a spherical brane and projected to the lowest Landau level. Then I show how the joining and splitting interactions of these dipoles…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Bogdan Morariu

We establish that all of the one- and two-dimensional global conformal blocks are, up to some choice of prefactor, free-particle wavefunctions in tensor products of AdS$_3$ or limits thereof. Our first core observation is that the six-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-16 Jean-François Fortin , Wen-Jie Ma , Sarthak Parikh , Lorenzo Quintavalle , Witold Skiba

We construct confluent conformal blocks of the second kind of the Virasoro algebra. We also construct the Stokes transformations which map such blocks in one Stokes sector to another. In the BPZ limit, we verify explicitly that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Jonatan Lenells , Julien Roussillon

We continue our study of the semi-classical (large central charge) expansion of the toroidal one-point conformal block in the context of the 2d/4d correspondence. We demonstrate that the Seiberg-Witten curve and (epsilon1-deformed)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor , Jan Troost