PIRSA:18040096

Construction of unitary Segal CFTs

Tener, J. (2018). Construction of unitary Segal CFTs. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/18040096

Tener, James. Construction of unitary Segal CFTs. Perimeter Institute, Apr. 30, 2018, https://pirsa.org/18040096 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:18040096,
            doi = {10.48660/18040096},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/18040096},
            author = {Tener, James},
            keywords = {Mathematical physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Construction of unitary Segal CFTs},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2018},
            month = {apr},
            note = {PIRSA:18040096 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

James Tener

University of California, Santa Barbara

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In this talk I will describe joint work in progress with Andre Henriques to construct examples of Graeme Segal's functorial definition of 2d chiral conformal field theory. While Segal's definition originated in the 1980's, constructive aspects of the theory continue to be challenging, especially with regard to higher genus surfaces. I will motivate and introduce Segal's definition, and describe a new approach to constructing examples using von Neumann algebras.