SO(n) Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki states as conformal boundary states of integrable SU(n) spin chains
This paper constructs -symmetric conformal boundary states in the Wess-Zumino-Witten conformal field theory by embedding , identifies them as ground states of Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki spin chains within the integrable Uimin-Lai-Sutherland model, and analytically computes their boundary entropy using exact overlap formulas.