Two-dimensional Anomaly, Orbifolding, and Boundary States
High Energy Physics - Theory
2019-11-06 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We study anomalies of discrete internal global symmetry in two-dimensional rational conformal field theories based on twisted torus partition functions. The anomaly of can be seen from the noncommutativity of two symmetry lines inserted along the nontrivial cycles of two-torus and we propose a criterion to detect the anomaly, which agrees with the truncated modular -matrix approach. The obstruction for orbifolding has been recently interpreted as a mixed anomaly between and large diffeomorphisms. We clarify the relations among anomaly-free conditions, orbifoldable conditions, and invariant boundary state condition, focusing on Wess-Zumino-Witten models.
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@article{arxiv.1908.02918,
title = {Two-dimensional Anomaly, Orbifolding, and Boundary States},
author = {Ken Kikuchi and Yang Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.02918},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
45 pages, 2 figures, v2:minor improvement+acknowledgement added