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Modular Orbits at Higher Genus

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-03-27 v3

Abstract

We extend the modular orbits method of constructing a two-dimensional orbifold conformal field theory to higher genus Riemann surfaces. We find that partition functions on surfaces of arbitrary genus can be constructed by a straightforward generalization of the rules that one would apply to the torus. We demonstrate how one can use these higher genus objects to compute correlation functions and OPE coefficients in the underlying theory. In the case of orbifolds of free bosonic theories by subgroups of continuous symmetries, we can give the explicit results of our procedure for symmetric and asymmetric orbifolds by cyclic groups.

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@article{arxiv.1911.06306,
  title  = {Modular Orbits at Higher Genus},
  author = {Daniel Robbins and Thomas Vandermeulen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.06306},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

33 pages; correlation function discussion expanded, references added

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