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  • Event CalendarQuantum Matter
    10:00 am-11:30 am
    06/09/2023
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    Quantum Matter Seminar

    Speakers: Gerald Höhn (Kansas State University) & Sven Möller (University of Hamburg)

    Title: Classification of Self-Dual Vertex Operator Superalgebras of Central Charge at Most 24

    Abstract: We discuss the classfication of self-dual vertex operator superalgebras (SVOAs) of central charge 24, or in physics parlance the purely chiral 2-dimensional fermionic conformal field theories with just one primary field.

    There are exactly 969 such SVOAs under suitable regularity assumptions and the assumption that the shorter moonshine module VB^# is the unique self-dual SVOA of central charge 23.5 whose weight-1/2 and weight-1 spaces vanish.

    We construct and classify the self-dual SVOAs by determining the 2-neighbourhood graph of the self-dual (purely bosonic) VOAs of central charge 24 and also by realising them as simple-current extensions of a dual pair containing a certain maximal lattice VOA. We show that all SVOAs besides VB^# x F and potential fake copies thereof stem from elements of the Conway group Co_0, the automorphism group of the Leech lattice.

    By splitting off free fermions F, if possible, we obtain the classification for all central charges less than or equal to 24.
    Reference: G. Höhn, S. Möller, arXiv:2303.17190.

     

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  • Event CalendarQuantum Matter
    10:00 am-12:00 pm
    06/13/2023
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    Quantum Matter Seminar

    Speaker: Brandon C. Rayhaun (C. N. Yang ITP, Stony Brook University)

    Title: Small Bosonic CFTs, Chiral Fermionization, and Symmetry/Subalgebra Duality

    Abstract: Conformal field theories in (1+1)D are key actors in many dramas of physics and mathematics. Their classification has therefore been an important and long-standing problem. In this talk, I will explain the main ideas behind the classification of (most) “small” bosonic CFTs. Here, I use the adjective “small” informally to refer to theories with low central charge (less than 24) and few primary operators (less than 5). Time and attention permitting, I will highlight two applications of this result. First, I will describe how it can be used in tandem with bosonization and fermionization techniques to establish the classification of chiral fermionic CFTs with central charge less than 23. Second, I will showcase how it can be used to bootstrap generalized global symmetries using the concept of “symmetry/subalgebra duality.”

    Talk based on arXiv:2208.05486 [hep-th] (joint work with Sunil Mukhi) and arXiv:2303.16921 [hep-th].

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