Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 17 (2021), 040, 22 pages      arXiv:1911.10147      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2021.040

CFT Correlators for Cardy Bulk Fields via String-Net Models

Christoph Schweigert and Yang Yang
Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Hamburg, Bereich Algebra und Zahlentheorie,Bundesstraße 55, 20146 Hamburg, Germany

Received November 01, 2020, in final form April 12, 2021; Published online April 21, 2021

Abstract
We show that string-net models provide a novel geometric method to construct invariants of mapping class group actions. Concretely, we consider string-net models for a modular tensor category ${\mathcal C}$. We show that the datum of a specific commutative symmetric Frobenius algebra in the Drinfeld center $Z(\mathcal{C})$ gives rise to invariant string-nets. The Frobenius algebra has the interpretation of the algebra of bulk fields of the conformal field theory in the Cardy case.

Key words: two-dimensional conformal field theory; string-net models; correlators; Cardy case.

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