Modular differential equations and null vectors

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/079zbMATH Open1245.81240OpenAlexW2073194482MaRDI QIDQ445569FDOQ445569

Authors Matthias R. Gaberdiel, Christoph A. Keller

Publication date 26 August 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.0489

zbMATH Keywords

modular differential equationrational conformal field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: We show that every modular differential equation of a rational conformal field theory comes from a null vector in the vacuum Verma module. We also comment on the implications of this result for the consistency of the extremal self-dual conformal field theories at c=24 k.

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