Contour integrals and the modular S-matrix

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2020)045zbMATH Open1451.81369arXiv1912.04298OpenAlexW2994785019MaRDI QIDQ2215348FDOQ2215348

Authors: Sunil Mukhi, Rahul Poddar, Palash Singh 

Publication date: 11 December 2020

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

Abstract: We investigate a conjecture to describe the characters of large families of RCFT's in terms of contour integrals of Feigin-Fuchs type. We provide a simple algorithm to determine the modular S-matrix for arbitrary numbers of characters as a sum over paths. Thereafter we focus on the case of 2, 3 and 4 characters, where agreement between the critical exponents of the integrals and the characters implies that the conjecture is true. In these cases, we compute the modular S-matrix explicitly, verify that it agrees with expectations for known theories, and use it to compute degeneracies and multiplicities of primaries. We also compute S in an 8-character example to provide additional evidence for the original conjecture. On the way we note that the Verlinde formula provides interesting constraints on the critical exponents of RCFT in this context.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04298

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryfield theories in lower dimensionsconformal and W symmetryintegrable field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

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