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On Classification of Fermionic Rational Conformal Field Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-06-09 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We systematically study how the integrality of the conformal characters shapes the space of fermionic rational conformal field theories in two dimensions. The integrality suggests that conformal characters on torus with a given choice of spin structures should be invariant under a principal congruence subgroup of PSL(2,Z)\mathrm{PSL}(2,\mathbb{Z}). The invariance strongly constrains the possible values of the central charge as well as the conformal weights in both Neveu-Schwarz and Ramond sectors, which improves the conventional holomorphic modular bootstrap method in a significant manner. This allows us to make much progress on the classification of fermionic rational conformal field theories with the number of independent characters less than five.

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@article{arxiv.2210.06805,
  title  = {On Classification of Fermionic Rational Conformal Field Theories},
  author = {Zhihao Duan and Kimyeong Lee and Sungjay Lee and Linfeng Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.06805},
  year   = {2023}
}

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36 pages, 1 figure; minor changes, published version

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