Conformal nets. II: Conformal blocks

DOI10.1007/S00220-016-2814-5MaRDI QIDQ2364586zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Christopher L. Douglas, André Henriques, Arthur Bartels

Publication date 21 July 2017

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.8672

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: 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 closed topological surfaces into the category of finite-dimensional projective Hilbert spaces. We also construct infinite-dimensional spaces of conformal blocks for topological surfaces with smooth boundary. We prove that the conformal blocks satisfy a factorization formula for gluing surfaces along circles, and an analogous formula for gluing surfaces along intervals. We use this interval factorization property to give a new proof of the modularity of the category of representations of a conformal net.

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