Seminar series
Date
Fri, 26 Feb 2021
16:00
16:00
Location
Virtual
Speaker
Philip Boyle Smith
Organisation
Cambridge
There has been a recent uptick in interest in fermionic CFTs. These mildly generalise the usual notion of CFT to allow dependence on a background spin structure. I will discuss how this generalisation manifests itself in the symmetries, anomalies, and boundary conditions of the theory, using the series of unitary Virasoro minimal models as an example.