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Modular differential equations for torus one-point functions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-13 v2

Abstract

It is shown that in a rational conformal field theory every torus one-point function of a given highest weight state satisfies a modular differential equation. We derive and solve these differential equations explicitly for some Virasoro minimal models. In general, however, the resulting amplitudes do not seem to be expressible in terms of standard transcendental functions.

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@article{arxiv.0810.0106,
  title  = {Modular differential equations for torus one-point functions},
  author = {Matthias R Gaberdiel and Samuel Lang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.0106},
  year   = {2009}
}

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19 pages, LaTeX; reference added

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