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We study the effect of bulk perturbations of N=(2) superconformal minimal models on topological defects. In particular, symmetries and more general topological defects which survive the flow to the IR are identified. Our method is to consider the topological subsector and make use of the Landau-Ginzburg formulation to describe RG flows and topological defects in terms of matrix factorizations.
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Brunner, I., Mayer, I. & Schmidt-Colinet, C. Topological defects and SUSY RG flow. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 98 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2021)098
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