{ "id": "2303.04459", "version": "v1", "published": "2023-03-08T09:16:40.000Z", "updated": "2023-03-08T09:16:40.000Z", "title": "Subfactors and Mathematical Physics", "authors": [ "David E. Evans", "Yasuyuki Kawahigashi" ], "comment": "22 pages, 1 figure. To appear in an issue of the Bulletin of the AMS, dedicated to the mathematical legacy of Vaughan Jones", "categories": [ "math-ph", "math.MP", "math.OA", "math.QA" ], "abstract": "This paper surveys the long-standing connections and impact between Vaughan Jones's theory of subfactors and various topics in mathematical physics, namely statistical mechanics,quantum field theory,quantum information and two-dimensional conformal field theory.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2023-03-08T09:16:40.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "46L37", "17B69", "18D10", "81R10", "81T05", "81T40", "82B20", "82B23" ], "keywords": [ "mathematical physics", "subfactors", "two-dimensional conformal field theory", "quantum field theory", "vaughan joness theory" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 22, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }