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Narain to Narnia

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-10-19 v2

Abstract

We generalize the holographic correspondence between topological gravity coupled to an abelian Chern-Simons theory in three dimensions and an ensemble average of Narain's family of massless free bosons in two dimensions, discovered by Afkhami-Jeddi et al. and by Maloney and Witten. We find that the correspondence also works for toroidal orbifolds but not for K3 or Calabi-Yau sigma-models and not always for the minimal models. We conjecture that the correspondence requires that the central charge is equal to the critical central charge defined by the asymptotic density of states of the chiral algebra. For toroidal orbifolds, we extend the holographic correspondence to correlation functions of twist operators by using topological properties of rational tangles in the three-dimensional ball, which represent configurations of vortices associated to a discrete gauge symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.2103.15826,
  title  = {Narain to Narnia},
  author = {Nathan Benjamin and Christoph A. Keller and Hirosi Ooguri and Ida G. Zadeh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.15826},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

27 pages + appendices, 4 figures; v2: minor changes

R2 v1 2026-06-24T00:39:43.168Z