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Fusion rules and structure constants of E-series minimal models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-05-21 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In the ADE classification of Virasoro minimal models, the E-series is the sparsest: their central charges c=16(pq)2pqc=1-6\frac{(p-q)^2}{pq} are not dense in the half-line c(,1)c\in (-\infty,1), due to q=12,18,30q=12,18,30 taking only 3 values -- the Coxeter numbers of E6,E7,E8E_6, E_7, E_8. 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 q=30q=30. We conjecture that structure constants are given by a universal expression built from the double Gamma function, times polynomial functions of cos(πpq)\cos(\pi\frac{p}{q}) with values in Q(cos(πq))\mathbb{Q}\big(\cos(\frac{\pi}{q})\big), which we work out explicitly for q=12q=12. We speculate on generalizing E-series minimal models to generic integer values of qq, and recovering loop CFTs as p,qp,q\to \infty.

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

R2 v1 2026-06-28T21:50:56.770Z