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Orbifolds of chiral fermionic CFTs and their duality

by Kohki Kawabata, Shinichiro Yahagi

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Kohki Kawabata · Shinichiro Yahagi
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Preprint Link: scipost_202410_00017v2  (pdf)
Date submitted: 2025-04-17 13:50
Submitted by: Kawabata, Kohki
Submitted to: SciPost Physics
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Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • High-Energy Physics - Theory
Approach: Theoretical

Abstract

We consider chiral fermionic conformal field theories (CFTs) constructed from lattices and investigate their orbifolds under reflection and shift Z2 symmetries. For lattices based on binary error-correcting codes, we show the duality between reflection and shift orbifolds using a triality structure inherited from the binary codes. Additionally, we systematically compute the partition functions of the orbifold theories for both binary and nonbinary codes. Finally, we explore applications of this code-based construction in the search for supersymmetric CFTs and chiral fermionic CFTs without continuous symmetries.

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- On page 6, we clarified that topological operations generate three independent theories. ("These operations generate three independent Hilbert spaces up to stacking invertible phases:")
- typo on page 10 raised by the referee (fermion party -> fermion parity)

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Report #1 by Anonymous (Referee 2) on 2025-4-21 (Invited Report)

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The authors have successfully addressed the concerns and suggestion. These revisions have improved the clarity of the manuscript. The reviewer is thus pleased to recommend the revised manuscript for publication.

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