Chiral fermionic CFTs of central charge ≤ 16
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA QUANTUM MATTER IN MATH & PHYSICS SEMINAR
When: June 26, 2023
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Philip Boyle Smith - IPMU
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.
For more information, please see:
Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics (QMMP) 2023:
https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/
https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/
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