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Algebra Seminar

Friday, March 29, 2024 - 3:30pm

Yi-Zhi Huang

Rutgers University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

I will give a survey on the modular invariance in conformal field theory. I will start with the modular invariance conjecture of Moore and Seiberg for rational conformal field theories. I will discuss Zhu's modular invariance result, the speaker's proof of the modular invariance conjecture of Moore and Seiberg, Miyamoto's pseudo traces and modular invariance result, and the speaker's recent proof of the modular invariance conjecture of twenty years for C_2-cofinite (logarithmic) conformal field theories.