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CFT characters from localization

Lorenz Eberhardt, Duarte Fragoso, Hessel Posthuma

hep-tharXiv:2609.05211

Abstract

We explain a general procedure to compute characters of chiral algebras of 2d (S)CFTs geometrically from their coadjoint orbits, in analogy with the coadjoint orbit method for finite-dimensional Lie groups. We demonstrate that this method can be used to give concise rederivations of the characters of the Virasoro algebra, Kac-Moody algebras, as well as supersymmetric generalizations.

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