Department of Mathematics

In this talk I’ll present joint work in progress with André Henriques which shows that any conformal net (i.e. a net of factors corresponding to intervals of the unit circle) has a geometric origin. More precisely, I’ll explain how the factors are generated by insertion operators built from a two-dimensional geometric field theory, or alternatively from a vertex operator algebra. A similar analysis is possible for representations of a conformal net, which correspond to subfactors.

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