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Classification of chiral fermionic CFTs of central charge $\le$ 16

Philip Boyle Smith, Ying-Hsuan Lin, Yuji Tachikawa, Yunqin Zheng

SciPost Phys. 16, 058 (2024) · published 27 February 2024

Abstract

We classify two-dimensional purely chiral unitary conformal field theories which are defined on two-dimensional surfaces equipped with spin structure and have central charge less than or equal to $16$, and discuss their duality webs. This result can be used to confirm that the list of non-supersymmetric ten-dimensional heterotic string theories found in the late 1980s is complete and does not miss any exotic example.


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