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most citedClassification of chiral fermionic CFTs of central charge

32 citations · 75 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

hep-th2023

Fermion-Monopole Scattering in the Standard Model

Marieke van Beest, Philip Boyle Smith, Diego Delmastro +2

We study the scattering of fermions off 't Hooft lines in the Standard Model. A long-standing paradox suggests that the outgoing fermions necessarily carry fractional quantum numbe…

hep-th2023★ 7 cited

Monopoles, Scattering, and Generalized Symmetries

Marieke van Beest, Philip Boyle Smith, Diego Delmastro +2

We reconsider the problem of electrically charged, massless fermions scattering off magnetic monopoles. The interpretation of the outgoing states has long been a puzzle as, in cert…

hep-th2023★ 32 cited

Classification of chiral fermionic CFTs of central charge

Philip Boyle Smith, Ying-Hsuan Lin, Yuji Tachikawa +1

We classify two-dimensional purely chiral conformal field theories which are defined on two-dimensional surfaces equipped with spin structure and have central charge less than or e…

hep-th2021

On Discrete Anomalies in Chiral Gauge Theories

Philip Boyle Smith, Avner Karasik, Nakarin Lohitsiri +1

We study two well-known chiral gauge theories with fermions in the symmetric, anti-symmetric and fundamental representations. We give a detailed description of the global s…

hep-th2021★ 3 cited

Boundary States and Anomalous Symmetries of Fermionic Minimal Models

Philip Boyle Smith

The fermionic minimal models are a recently-introduced family of two-dimensional spin conformal field theories. We determine all of their conformal boundary states and potentially…

hep-th2020★ 18 cited

What Symmetries are Preserved by a Fermion Boundary State?

Philip Boyle Smith, David Tong

Usually, a left-moving fermion in d=1+1 dimensions reflects off a boundary to become a right-moving fermion. This means that, while overall fermion parity is conserved, ch…