Non-chiral 2d CFT with integer energy levels

Autor: Ashrafi, M., Loran, F.
Rok vydání: 2016
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2016)121
Popis: 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.
Comment: v2: 19 pages, few footnotes and a reference added, to appear in JHEP
Databáze: arXiv