The Construction of Correlators in Finite Rigid Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory

TL;DR

This paper develops a new method for constructing and classifying correlators in finite logarithmic conformal field theories with non-semisimple monodromy data, extending previous rational CFT results and confirming several theoretical conjectures.

Contribution

It introduces a novel correlator construction applicable to open-closed sectors in logarithmic CFTs, generalizing past rational theories and employing the modular microcosm principle.

Findings

Correlators admit a holographic description via factorization homology.

Evaluation of the torus partition function at projective objects yields non-negative integers.

The algebra of local operators has a Batalin-Vilkovisky structure matching Hochschild cohomology.

Abstract

For logarithmic conformal field theories whose monodromy data is given by a not necessarily semisimple modular category, we solve the problem of constructing and classifying the consistent systems of correlators. The correlator construction given in this article applies to the open-closed sector and generalizes the well-known one for rational conformal field theories given by Fuchs-Runkel-Schweigert roughly twenty years ago and solves conjectures of Fuchs, Gannon, Schaumann and Schweigert. The strategy is, even in the rational special case, entirely different. The correlators are constructed using the extension procedures that can be devised by means of the modular microcosm principle. It is shown that, as in the rational case, the correlators admit a holographic description, with the main difference that the holographic principle is phrased in terms of factorization homology. The latter description is used to prove that the coefficients obtained by the evaluation of the torus partition function at projective objects are non-negative integers. Moreover, we show that the derived algebra of local operators associated to a consistent system of correlators carries a Batalin-Vilkovisky structure. We prove that it is equivalent to the Batalin-Vilkovisky structure on the Hochschild cohomology of the pivotal module category of boundary conditions, for the notion of pivotality due to Schaumann and Shimizu. This proves several expectations formulated by Kapustin-Rozansky and Fuchs-Schweigert for general conformal field theories.