Exotic Rational Conformal Field Theories and the Modular Bootstrap

Seminar series

String Theory Seminar

Date

Mon, 21 May 2018
12:45

Location

Speaker

Sunil Mukhi

Organisation

IISER Pune

I will summarise old and recent developments on the classification and solution of Rational Conformal Field Theories in 2 dimensions using the method of Modular Differential Equations. Novel and exotic theories are found with small numbers of characters and simple fusion rules, one of these being the Baby Monster CFT. Correlation functions for many of these theories can be computed using crossing-symmetric differential equations.