Quantum Matter Seminar

Title: Chiral fermionic CFTs of central charge ≤ 16

Abstract: We classified all chiral fermionic CFTs of central charge ≤ 16 using Kac’s theorem and bosonization/fermionization. This talk will discuss the derivation of this result, its application to the classification of non-supersymmetric heterotic string theories, and along the way we’ll address some oft-overlooked subtleties of bosonization from the point of view of anomalies and topological phases.