We define generalised chiral vertex operators covariant under the Ocneanu “double triangle algebra” A, a novel quantum symmetry intrinsic to a given rational 2-d conformal field theory. This provides a chiral approach, which, unlike the conventional one, makes explicit various algebraic structures encountered previously in the study of these theories and of the associated critical lattice models, and thus allows their unified treatment. The triangular Ocneanu cells, the 3j-symbols of the weak Hopf algebra A, reappear in several guises. With A and its dual algebra  one associates a pair of graphs, G and ˜G. While G are known to encode complete sets of conformal boundary states, the Ocneanu graphs ˜G classify twisted torus partition functions. The fusion algebra of the twist operators provides the data determining Â. The study of bulk field correlators in the presence of twists reveals that the Ocneanu graph quantum symmetry gives also an information on the field operator algebra.
We define generalised chiral vertex operators covariant under the Ocneanu “double triangle algebra” A, a novel quantum symmetry intrinsic to a given rational 2-d conformal field theory. This provides a chiral approach, which, unlike the conventional one, makes explicit various algebraic structures encountered previously in the study of these theories and of the associated critical lattice models, and thus allows their unified treatment. The triangular Ocneanu cells, the 3j-symbols of the weak Hopf algebra A, reappear in several guises. With A and its dual algebra  one associates a pair of graphs, G and ˜G. While G are known to encode complete sets of conformal boundary states, the Ocneanu graphs ˜G classify twisted torus partition functions. The fusion algebra of the twist operators provides the data determining Â. The study of bulk field correlators in the presence of twists reveals that the Ocneanu graph quantum symmetry gives also an information on the field operator algebra.
We study integrable realizations of conformal twisted boundary conditions for s ℓ(2) unitary minimal models on a torus. These conformal field theories are realized as the continuum scaling limit of critical G = A , D , E lattice models with positive spectral parameter u > 0 and Coxeter number g . Integrable seams are constructed by fusing blocks of elementary local face weights. The usual A -type fusions are labelled by the Kac labels ( r , s ) and are associated with the Verlinde fusion algebra. We introduce a new type of fusion in the two braid limits u → ±i ∞ associated with the graph fusion algebra, and labelled by nodes a , b ∊ G respectively. When combined with automorphisms, they lead to general integrable seams labelled by x = ( r , a , b , κ) ∊ ( A g −2 , H , H , 2 ) where H is the graph G for type I theories and its parent for type II theories. Identifying our construction labels with the conformal labels of Petkova and Zuber, we find that the integrable seams are in one-to-one correspondence with the conformal seams. The distinct seams are thus associated with the nodes of the Ocneanu quantum graph. The quantum symmetries and twisted partition functions are checked numerically for | G | ≤ 6. We also show, in the case of D 2ℓ , that the non-commutativity of the Ocneanu algebra of seams arises because the automorphisms do not commute with the fusions.
A (1 + 1)D unitary bosonic rational conformal field theory (RCFT) may be organized according to its genus, a tuple (c,C) consisting of its central charge c and a unitary modular tensor category C which describes the (2 + 1)D topological quantum field theory for which its maximally extended chiral algebra forms a holomorphic boundary condition. We establish a number of results pertaining to RCFTs in “small” genera, by which we informally mean genera with the central charge c and the number of primary operators rank(C) both not too large. We start by completely solving the modular bootstrap problem for theories with at most four primary operators. In particular, we characterize, and provide an algorithm which efficiently computes, the function spaces to which the partition function of any bosonic RCFT with rank(C)≤4 must belong. Using this result, and leveraging relationships between RCFTs and holomorphic vertex operator algebras which come from “gluing” and cosets, we rigorously enumerate all bosonic theories in 95 of the 105 genera (c,C) with c ≤ 24 and rank(C)≤4. This includes as (new) special cases the classification of chiral algebras with three primaries and c < 120/7 ∼ 17.14, and the classification of chiral algebras with four primaries and c < 62/3 ∼ 20.67. We then study two applications of our classification. First, by making use of chiral versions of bosonization and fermionization, we obtain the complete list of purely left-moving fermionic RCFTs with c < 23 as a corollary of the results of the previous paragraph. Second, using a (conjectural) concept which we call “symmetry/subalgebra duality,” we precisely relate our bosonic classification to the problem of determining certain generalized global symmetries of holomorphic vertex operator algebras.
Abstract We identify the maximal chiral algebra of conformal cyclic orbifolds. In terms of this extended algebra, the orbifold is a rational and diagonal conformal field theory, provided the mother theory itself is also rational and diagonal. The operator content and operator product expansion of the cyclic orbifolds are revisited in terms of this algebra. The fusion rules and fusion numbers are computed via the Verlinde formula. This allows one to predict which conformal blocks appear in a given four-point function of twisted or untwisted operators, which is relevant for the computation of various entanglement measures in one-dimensional critical systems.
Abstract We consider unitary and nonunitary ( A , G ) coset minimal models on the cylinder with G = A , D , E . Elementary topological defects are implemented as non-contractible Verlinde, Pasquier and Ocneanu lines around the cylinder. The decomposition of compound defects, formed by fusing elementary defects together, is described by the Verlinde, Pasquier and Ocneanu graph fusion algebras. The action of the compound defects on the left- or right-vacuum boundary state builds the known conformal cylinder boundary conditions. Fusing these defects, in the presence of vacuum boundary conditions, reproduces the known general formulas for the conformal cylinder partition functions. We define the coset graph A ⊗ G / Z 2 , argue that it is a universal object and show that it encodes (i) the coset graph fusion algebra, (ii) the Affleck–Ludwig boundary g -factors, (iii) the defect g -factors given by quantum dimensions and (iv) the relative symmetry resolved Affleck–Ludwig entropies. Additionally, it is shown that the boundary and defect g -factors are related to the asymptotic counting of fusion paths on the coset graph. On the lattice, the defects are constructed as Yang–Baxter integrable seams including special braid and graph automorphism transfer matrices. Remarkably, many of the boundary conformal field theory (CFT) discrete structures, such as fusion matrices, modular matrices, quantum dimensions and defects, appear at the level of lattice Yang–Baxter integrable A - D - E restricted solid-on-solid models and these structures and their properties carry over to the CFT in the continuum scaling limit. Importantly, in the continuum scaling limit, the lattice transfer matrix T - and Y -system functional equations carry over to produce the coset graph fusion algebra for the defect lines. Moreover, the effective central charges and conformal weights are expressed in terms of dilogarithms of the braid and bulk asymptotics of the Y -system expressed in terms of the quantum dimensions.
We extend the concept of strange correlators, defined for symmetry-protected phases in You et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 247202 (2014)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.112.247202], to topological phases of matter by taking the inner product between string-net ground states and product states. The resulting two-dimensional partition functions are shown to be either critical or symmetry broken, since the corresponding transfer matrices inherit all matrix product operator symmetries of the string-net states. For the case of critical systems, these nonlocal matrix product operator symmetries are the lattice remnants of topological conformal defects in the field theory description. Following Aasen et al. [J. Phys. A 49, 354001 (2016)JPAMB51751-811310.1088/1751-8113/49/35/354001], we argue that the different conformal boundary conditions can be obtained by applying the strange correlator concept to the different topological sectors of the string net obtained from Ocneanu's tube algebra. This is demonstrated on the lattice by calculating the conformal field theory spectra in the different topological sectors for the Fibonacci (hard-hexagon) and Ising string net. Additionally, we provide a complementary perspective on symmetry-preserving real-space renormalization by showing how known tensor network renormalization methods can be understood as the approximate truncation of an exactly coarse-grained strange correlator.