Harmonic analysis of 2d CFT partition functions

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DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2021)174zbMATH Open1472.81215arXiv2107.10744OpenAlexW3203055828MaRDI QIDQ2237679FDOQ2237679


Authors: Nathan Benjamin, Scott Collier, A. Liam Fitzpatrick, Alexander Maloney, Eric Perlmutter Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 27 October 2021

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

Abstract: We apply the theory of harmonic analysis on the fundamental domain of SL(2,mathbbZ) to partition functions of two-dimensional conformal field theories. We decompose the partition function of c free bosons on a Narain lattice into eigenfunctions of the Laplacian of worldsheet moduli space mathbbH/SL(2,mathbbZ), and of target space moduli space . This decomposition manifests certain properties of Narain theories and ensemble averages thereof. We extend the application of spectral theory to partition functions of general two-dimensional conformal field theories, and explore its meaning in connection to AdS3 gravity. An implication of harmonic analysis is that the local operator spectrum is fully determined by a certain subset of degeneracies.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10744




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