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Modular differential equations and null vectors

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-01-30 v3

Abstract

We show that every modular differential equation of a rational conformal field theory comes from a null vector in the vacuum Verma module. We also comment on the implications of this result for the consistency of the extremal self-dual conformal field theories at c=24 k.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0804.0489,
  title  = {Modular differential equations and null vectors},
  author = {Matthias R. Gaberdiel and Christoph A. Keller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.0489},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

28 pages, LaTeX, v2: added appendix containing details of proof; version published in JHEP, v3: corrected typos in appendix

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