RCFT with defects: Factorization and fundamental world sheets

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2012.05.011zbMATH Open1246.81324arXiv1202.3929OpenAlexW2064670477MaRDI QIDQ447446FDOQ447446

Jürgen Fuchs, Jens Fjelstad, Carl Stigner

Publication date: 3 September 2012

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is known that for any full rational conformal field theory, the correlation functions that are obtained by the TFT construction satisfy all locality, modular invariance and factorization conditions, and that there is a small set of fundamental correlators to which all others are related via factorization - provided that the world sheets considered do not contain any non-trivial defect lines. In this paper we generalize both results to oriented world sheets with an arbitrary network of topological defect lines.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3929

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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