[QMatter in Math/Physics June 26 Mon 10:00 am - 11:30 am ET] Philip Boyle Smith (IPMU) Chiral fermionic CFTs of central charge ≤ 16 - Harvard CMSA ZOOM 977347126

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Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics (QMMP) 2023:

https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event_category/quantum-matter-seminar/

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This seminar will be on Zoom.

Time:  June 26, Mon 10:00 am - 11:30 am ET  

Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/977347126

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Philip Boyle Smith (IPMU) 

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.

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