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Meromorphic CFTs have central charges c = 8$\mathbb{N}$: a proof based on the MLDE approach and Rademacher series

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-05-31 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Mathematical Physics math.MP Number Theory Quantum Algebra

Abstract

In this short note, we present a simple and elementary proof that meromorphic conformal field theories (CFTs) have central charges of the form: c=8Nc=8N with NNN\in\mathbb{N} (the set of natural numbers) using the modular linear differential equations (MLDEs) approach. We first set up the 1-character MLDE for arbitrary value of the Wronskian index: \ell. From this we get the general form of the meromorphic CFT's character. We then study its modular transformations and the asymptotic value of it's Fourier coefficients -- using Rademacher series -- to conclude that odd values of \ell make the character in-admissible implying that the central charge for admissible character has to be a multiple of 8.

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@article{arxiv.2312.02129,
  title  = {Meromorphic CFTs have central charges c = 8$\mathbb{N}$: a proof based on the MLDE approach and Rademacher series},
  author = {Arpit Das},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.02129},
  year   = {2024}
}

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15 pages, comments are most welcome. v2: modified the title and abstract slightly, references updated, fixed typos, main results and analysis unchanged