Fusion rules and structure constants of E-series minimal models
Abstract
In the ADE classification of Virasoro minimal models, the E-series is the sparsest: their central charges are not dense in the half-line , due to taking only 3 values -- the Coxeter numbers of . The E-series is also the least well understood, with few known results beyond the spectrum. Here, we use a semi-analytic bootstrap approach for numerically computing 4-point correlation functions. We deduce non-chiral fusion rules, i.e. which 3-point structure constants vanish. These vanishings can be explained by constraints from null vectors, interchiral symmetry, simple currents, extended symmetries, permutations, and parity, except in one case for . We conjecture that structure constants are given by a universal expression built from the double Gamma function, times polynomial functions of with values in , which we work out explicitly for . We speculate on generalizing E-series minimal models to generic integer values of , and recovering loop CFTs as .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2502.14295,
title = {Fusion rules and structure constants of E-series minimal models},
author = {Rongvoram Nivesvivat and Sylvain Ribault},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.14295},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
22 pages, v2, many clarifications according to reviewers' comments