Genus two partition functions of chiral conformal field theories (Q543995)

The authors analyze the structure of genus-two vacuum amplitudes of chiral self-dual conformal field theories. It is shown that the existence of a modular invariant genus-two partition function implies infinitely many relations among the structure constants of the theory. All of these relations are shown to be a consequence of the associativity of the operator product expansion as well as the modular covariance properties of the torus one-point function. The techniques are applied to prove that, for the proposed extremal conformal field theories at \(c=24k\), a consistent genus-two vacuum amplitude exists for all \(k\), but that this does not actually check the consistency of these theories beyond what is already testable at genus one.