On rational points in CFT moduli spaces

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2021)067MaRDI QIDQ2032497zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nathan Benjamin, Christoph A. Keller, Hirosi Ooguri, Ida G. Zadeh

Publication date 11 June 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07062

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theorysigma models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: Motivated by the search for rational points in moduli spaces of two-dimensional conformal field theories, we investigate how points with enhanced symmetry algebras are distributed there. We first study the bosonic sigma-model with $S^1$ target space in detail and uncover hitherto unknown features. We find for instance that the vanishing of the twist gap, though true for the $S^1$ example, does not automatically follow from enhanced symmetry points being dense in the moduli space. We then explore the supersymmetric sigma-model on K3 by perturbing away from the torus orbifold locus. Though we do not reach a definite conclusion on the distribution of enhanced symmetry points in the K3 moduli space, we make several observations on how chiral currents can emerge and disappear under conformal perturbation theory.

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