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The holomorphic bootstrap attempts to classify rational conformal field theories. The straight ahead approach is hard to implement when the number of characters become large. We combine all characters of an RCFT to form a vector valued…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-28 Suresh Govindarajan , Jagannath Santara

Holomorphic modular bootstrap is an approach to classifying rational conformal field theories making use of the modular differential equations. In this paper we explore its flavored refinement. For a class of chiral algebras, we propose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-07 Yiwen Pan , Chenxi Zeng

Following the initial proposal in 1988, there has been much progress in classifying Rational Conformal Field Theories in 2 dimensions from the Holomorphic Bootstrap approach. This method starts by postulating a generic holomorphic Modular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-09 Sunil Mukhi

We show that the conformal characters of various rational models of W-algebras can be already uniquely determined if one merely knows the central charge and the conformal dimensions. As a side result we develop several tools for studying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Wolfgang Eholzer , Nils-Peter Skoruppa

We update the holomorphic modular bootstrap incorporating a recent result that computes the exact S-matrix within the Modular Linear Differential Equation (MLDE) setting. Further, using knowledge of the allowed exponents modulo one, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-28 Suresh Govindarajan , Akhila Sadanandan

We extend the definitions of characters and partition functions to the case of conformal field theories which contain operators with logarithmic correlation functions. As an example we consider the theories with central charge c = c(p,1) =…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Michael Flohr

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-09 Zhihao Duan , Kimyeong Lee , Sungjay Lee , Linfeng Li

Rational conformal field theories in 2d have partition functions built from holomorphic characters, whose classification can be addressed via the holomorphic modular bootstrap. This is facilitated by a special basis of ``quasi-characters''…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-04 Arpit Das , Sunil Mukhi

In this paper, we develop several general techniques to investigate modular invariants of conformal field theories whose algebras of the holomorphic and anti-holomorphic sectors are different. As an application, we find all such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Gannon , Q. Ho-Kim

The classification scheme for rational conformal field theories, given by the Mathur-Mukhi-Sen (MMS) program, identifies a rational conformal field theory by two numbers: $(n, l)$. $n$ is the number of characters of the rational conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-19 Arpit Das , Chethan N. Gowdigere , Jagannath Santara

We use modular invariance to derive constraints on the spectrum of warped conformal field theories (WCFTs) --- nonrelativistic quantum field theories described by a chiral Virasoro and $U(1)$ Kac-Moody algebra. We focus on holographic WCFTs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-20 Luis Apolo , Wei Song

We propose a non-unitary example of holography for the family of two-dimensional logarithmic conformal field theories with negative central charge $c= c_{p,1} = - 6p +13 - 6 p^{-1}$. We argue that at large $p$, these models have a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 Joris Raeymaekers

We classify all two-dimensional, unitary, rational conformal field theories with two primaries, central charge $c<25$, and arbitrary Wronskian index. In mathematical parlance, we classify all strongly regular vertex operator algebras (VOAs)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-04 Sunil Mukhi , Brandon C. Rayhaun

In this short note, we present a simple and elementary proof that meromorphic conformal field theories (CFTs) have central charges of the form: $c=8N$ with $N\in\mathbb{N}$ (the set of natural numbers) using the modular linear differential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-31 Arpit Das

We investigate the admissible vector-valued modular forms having three independent characters and vanishing Wronskian index and determine which ones correspond to genuine 2d conformal field theories. This is done by finding bilinear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-04 Arpit Das , Chethan N. Gowdigere , Sunil Mukhi

We provide a brief but self-contained review of two-dimensional conformal field theory, from the basic principles to some of the simplest models. From the representations of the Virasoro algebra on the one hand, and the state-field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-14 Sylvain Ribault

A general procedure is presented to determine, given any suitable representation of the modular group, the characters of all possible Rational Conformal Field Theories whose associated modular representation is the given one. The relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Bantay , T. Gannon

We explore constraints on (1+1)$d$ unitary conformal field theory with an internal $\mathbb{Z}_N$ global symmetry, by bounding the lightest symmetry-preserving scalar primary operator using the modular bootstrap. Among the other constraints…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-09 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao

Recent work on the classification of conformal field theories with one primary field (the identity operator) is reviewed. The classification of such theories is an essential step in the program of classification of all rational conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 A. N. Schellekens

We use the theory of topological modular forms to constrain bosonic holomorphic CFTs, which can be viewed as $(0,1)$ SCFTs with trivial right-moving supersymmetric sector. A conjecture by Segal, Stolz and Teichner requires the constant term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-05 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Du Pei
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