Non-chiral 2d CFT with integer energy levels

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2016)121zbMATH Open1390.81220arXiv1607.08516OpenAlexW2477458968MaRDI QIDQ1636200FDOQ1636200

Y. Aharonov

Publication date: 12 June 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The partition function of 2d conformal field theory is a modular invariant function. It is known that the partition function of a holomorphic CFT whose central charge is a multiple of 24 is a polynomial in the Klein function. In this paper, by using the medium temperature expansion we show that every modular invariant partition function can be mapped to a holomorphic partition function whose structure can be determined similarly. We use this map to study partition function of CFTs with half-integer left and right conformal weights. We show that the corresponding left and right central charges are necessarily multiples of 4. Furthermore, the degree of degeneracy of high-energy levels can be uniquely determined in terms of the degeneracy in the low energy states.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08516

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryAdS-CFT correspondence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12)

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