scholarly journals Fermionic Rational Conformal Field Theories and Modular Linear Differential Equations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin-Beom Bae ◽  
Zhihao Duan ◽  
Kimyeong Lee ◽  
Sungjay Lee ◽  
Matthieu Sarkis
Keyword(s):  
Differential Equations ◽  
Tensor Category ◽  
Linear Differential Equations ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Congruence Subgroups ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Integer Coefficients ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Linear Differential

Abstract We define Modular Linear Differential Equations (MLDE) for the level-two congruence subgroups Γθ, Γ0(2) and Γ0(2) of SL2(ℤ). Each subgroup corresponds to one of the spin structures on the torus. The pole structures of the fermionic MLDEs are investigated by exploiting the valence formula for the level-two congruence subgroups. We focus on the first and second order holomorphic MLDEs without poles and use them to find a large class of ‘Fermionic Rational Conformal Field Theories’, which have non-negative integer coefficients in the q-series expansion of their characters. We study the detailed properties of these fermionic RCFTs, some of which are supersymmetric. This work also provides a starting point for the classification of the fermionic Modular Tensor Category.

Studies in multiplicative solutions to linear differential equations

1987 ◽  
Vol 106 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 277-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. M. Arscott
Keyword(s):  
Differential Equation ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Linear Differential Equation ◽  
Floquet Theory ◽  
Special Functions ◽  
Linear Differential Equations ◽  
Ordinary Linear Differential Equation ◽  
Closed Path ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Linear Differential

SynopsisGiven an ordinary linear differential equation whose singularities are isolated, a solution is called multiplicative for a closed path C if, when continued analytically along C, it returns to its starting-point merely multiplied by a constant. This paper first classifies such paths into three types, then investigates combinations of two such paths, in which a number of qualitatively different situations can arise. A key result is also given relating to a three-path combination. There are applications to special functions and Floquet theory for periodic equations.

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS IN g≥2 CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY

1989 ◽  
Vol 04 (18) ◽  
pp. 1773-1782
Author(s):  
AKISHI KATO ◽  
TOMOKI NAKANISHI
Keyword(s):  
Differential Equations ◽  
Riemann Surfaces ◽  
Virasoro Algebra ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Highest Weight ◽  
Higher Genus ◽  
Highest Weight Representations ◽  
Null State

We consider the minimal conformal field theories on Riemann surfaces of genus greater than one. We illustrate in a simple example how the null state conditions in the highest weight representations of the Virasoro algebra turn into differential equations including the moduli variables for correlators between degenerate fields. In particular, the set of an infinite number of partial differential equations satisfied by higher genus characters is obtained.

scholarly journals Wronskian indices and rational conformal field theories

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arpit Das ◽  
Chethan N. Gowdigere ◽  
Jagannath Santara
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Conformal Field Theory ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Minimal Models ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Partial Classification ◽  
Level 1 ◽  
Linear Differential ◽  
Full Classification

Abstract The classification scheme for rational conformal field theories, given by the Mathur-Mukhi-Sen (MMS) program, identifies a rational conformal field theory by two numbers: (n, l). n is the number of characters of the rational conformal field theory. The characters form linearly independent solutions to a modular linear differential equation (which is also labelled by (n, l)); the Wronskian index l is a non-negative integer associated to the structure of zeroes of the Wronskian.In this paper, we compute the (n, l) values for three classes of well-known CFTs viz. the WZW CFTs, the Virasoro minimal models and the $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 1 super-Virasoro minimal models. For the latter two, we obtain exact formulae for the Wronskian indices. For WZW CFTs, we get exact formulae for small ranks (upto 2) and all levels and for all ranks and small levels (upto 2) and for the rest we compute using a computer program. We find that any WZW CFT at level 1 has a vanishing Wronskian index as does the $$ {\hat{\mathbf{A}}}_{\mathbf{1}} $$ A ̂ 1 CFT at all levels. We find intriguing coincidences such as: (i) for the same level CFTs with $$ {\hat{\mathbf{A}}}_{\mathbf{2}} $$ A ̂ 2 and $$ {\hat{\mathbf{G}}}_{\mathbf{2}} $$ G ̂ 2 have the same (n, l) values, (ii) for the same level CFTs with $$ {\hat{\mathbf{B}}}_{\mathbf{r}} $$ B ̂ r and $$ {\hat{\mathbf{D}}}_{\mathbf{r}} $$ D ̂ r have the same (n, l) values for all r ≥ 5.Classifying all rational conformal field theories for a given (n, l) is one of the aims of the MMS program. We can use our computations to provide partial classifications. For the famous (2, 0) case, our partial classification turns out to be the full classification (achieved by MMS three decades ago). For the (3, 0) case, our partial classification includes two infinite series of CFTs as well as fifteen “discrete” CFTs; except three all others have Kac-Moody symmetry.

scholarly journals Holomorphic modular bootstrap revisited

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Kaidi ◽  
Ying-Hsuan Lin ◽  
Julio Parra-Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Differential Equations ◽  
Representation Theory ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Conformal Field

Abstract In this work we revisit the “holomorphic modular bootstrap”, i.e. the classification of rational conformal field theories via an analysis of the modular differential equations satisfied by their characters. By making use of the representation theory of PSL(2, ℤn), we describe a method to classify allowed central charges and weights (c, hi) for theories with any number of characters d. This allows us to avoid various bottlenecks encountered previously in the literature, and leads to a classification of consistent characters up to d = 5 whose modular differential equations are uniquely fixed in terms of (c, hi). In the process, we identify the full set of constraints on the allowed values of the Wronskian index for fixed d ≤ 5.

scholarly journals Classifying three-character RCFTs with Wronskian index equalling 0 or 2

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arpit Das ◽  
Chethan N. Gowdigere ◽  
Jagannath Santara
Keyword(s):  
Fourier Coefficients ◽  
Diophantine Equations ◽  
Operator Algebras ◽  
Central Charge ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Minimal Models ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
First Finding ◽  
Linear Differential

Abstract In the modular linear differential equation (MLDE) approach to classifying rational conformal field theories (RCFTs) both the MLDE and the RCFT are identified by a pair of non-negative integers [n,l]. n is the number of characters of the RCFT as well as the order of the MLDE that the characters solve and l, the Wronskian index, is associated to the structure of the zeroes of the Wronskian of the characters. In this paper, we study [3,0] and [3,2] MLDEs in order to classify the corresponding CFTs. We reduce the problem to a “finite” problem: to classify CFTs with central charge 0 < c ≤ 96, we need to perform 6, 720 computations for the former and 20, 160 for the latter. Each computation involves (i) first finding a simultaneous solution to a pair of Diophantine equations and (ii) computing Fourier coefficients to a high order and checking for positivity.In the [3,0] case, for 0 < c ≤ 96, we obtain many character-like solutions: two infinite classes and a discrete set of 303. After accounting for various categories of known solutions, including Virasoro minimal models, WZW CFTs, Franc-Mason vertex operator algebras and Gaberdiel-Hampapura-Mukhi novel coset CFTs, we seem to have seven hitherto unknown character-like solutions which could potentially give new CFTs. We also classify [3,2] CFTs for 0 < c ≤ 96: each CFT in this case is obtained by adjoining a constant character to a [2,0] CFT, whose classification was achieved by Mathur-Mukhi-Sen three decades ago.

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