15 juin 2026 à 3 juillet 2026
Institut Henri Poincaré
Fuseau horaire Europe/Paris

Córdova: Holomorphic CFT and Modular Tensor Categories

22 juin 2026, 11:05
40m
Institut Henri Poincaré

Institut Henri Poincaré

Bâtiment Borel, 11, Rue Pierre et Marie Curie 75005 Paris

Description

We study the interplay between holomorphic conformal field theory and dualities of 3d topological quantum field theories generalizing the paradigm of level-rank duality. A holomorphic conformal field theory with a Kac-Moody subalgebra implies a topological interface between Chern-Simons gauge theories. Upon condensing a suitable set of anyons, such an interface yields a duality between topological field theories. We illustrate this idea using the c = 24 holomorphic theories classified by Schellekens, which leads to a list of novel sporadic dualities. Some of these dualities necessarily involve condensation of anyons with non-abelian statistics, i.e. gauging non-invertible one-form global symmetries. Several of the examples we discover generalize from c = 24 to an infinite series.

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