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We develop further the theory of Rational Conformal Field Theories (RCFTs) on a cylinder with specified boundary conditions emphasizing the role of a triplet of algebras: the Verlinde, graph fusion and Pasquier algebras. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Roger E. Behrend , Paul A. Pearce , Valentina B. Petkova , Jean-Bernard Zuber

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 recent years it has been understood that new rational CFTs can be discovered by applying the coset construction to meromorphic CFTs. Here we turn this approach around and show that the coset construction, together with the classification…

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

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

We investigate a conjecture to describe the characters of large families of RCFT's in terms of contour integrals of Feigin-Fuchs type. We provide a simple algorithm to determine the modular S-matrix for arbitrary numbers of characters as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Sunil Mukhi , Rahul Poddar , Palash Singh

In this work we extend the study of arXiv:2210.07186 by investigating two- and three-character MLDEs for Fricke groups at prime levels. We have constructed these higher-character MLDEs by using a $\mathit{novel}$ Serre-Ramanujan type…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-13 Arpit Das , Naveen Balaji Umasankar

A (1+1)D unitary bosonic rational conformal field theory (RCFT) may be organized according to its genus, a tuple $(c,\mathscr{C})$ consisting of its central charge $c$ and a unitary modular tensor category $\mathscr{C}$ which describes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-03 Brandon C. Rayhaun

We define Modular Linear Differential Equations (MLDE) for the level-two congruence subgroups $\Gamma_\vartheta$, $\Gamma^0(2)$ and $\Gamma_0(2)$ of $\text{SL}_2(\mathbb Z)$. Each subgroup corresponds to one of the spin structures on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-12 Jin-Beom Bae , Zhihao Duan , Kimyeong Lee , Sungjay Lee , Matthieu Sarkis

We address here the question of whether the characters of an RCFT are modular functions for some level N, i.e. whether the representation of the modular group SL_2(Z) coming from any RCFT is trivial on some congruence subgroup. We prove…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Coste , T. Gannon

The two-character level-1 WZW models corresponding to Lie algebras in the Cvitanovi\'c-Deligne series $A_1,A_2,G_2,D_4,F_4,E_6,E_7$ have been argued to form coset pairs with respect to the meromorphic $E_{8,1}$ CFT. Evidence for this has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Sunil Mukhi , Rahul Poddar

We study one-character CFTs obtained as one-character extensions of the tensor products of a single CFT $\mathcal{C}$. The motivation comes from the fact that $28$ of the $71$ CFTs in the Schelleken's list of $c = 24$ CFTs are such CFTs. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-11 Chethan N. Gowdigere , Sachin Kala , Jagannath Santara

In this work we revisit the "holomorphic modular bootstrap", i.e. the classification of rational conformal field theories via an analysis of the modular differential equations satisfied by their characters. By making use of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Justin Kaidi , Ying-Hsuan Lin , Julio Parra-Martinez

We elaborate and extend the method of Wronskian differential equations for conformal blocks to compute four-point correlation functions on the plane for classes of primary fields in rational (and possibly more general) conformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-02 Sunil Mukhi , Girish Muralidhara

This article is the third of four that completely characterize a solution space $\mathcal{S}_N$ for a homogeneous system of $2N+3$ linear partial differential equations (PDEs) in $2N$ variables that arises in conformal field theory (CFT)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-06 Steven M. Flores , Peter Kleban

The rational conformal field theory (RCFT) extensions of W_{1+infinity} at c=1 are in one-to-one correspondence with 1-dimensional integral lattices L(m). Each extension is associated with a pair of oppositely charged ``vertex operators" of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 L. S. Georgiev , I. T. Todorov

All unitary Rational Conformal Field Theories (RCFT) are conjectured to be related to unitary coset Conformal Field Theories, i.e., gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) models with compact gauge groups. In this paper we use subfactor theory and…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Feng Xu

There is a well-known map from 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) to 2d vertex operator algebras (VOAs). The 4d Schur index corresponds to the VOA vacuum character, and must be a solution with integral coefficients of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 Justin Kaidi , Mario Martone , Leonardo Rastelli , Mitch Weaver

We explore some connections between vectors of integers and integer partitions seen as bi-infinite words. This methodology enables us to give a combinatorial interpretation of the Macdonald identities for affine root systems of the seven…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-05 David Wahiche

We classify all possible charge lattices and 1-form symmetry groups for $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs with characteristic dimension $\varkappa \neq \{1,2\}$. For rank-$r$ SCFTs that are not stacks of lower rank theories the order of the 1-form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-27 Antonio Amariti , Simone Rota

We study the even characters of $\widehat{su(2)}$ conformal field theories (CFTs) at admissible fractional levels obtained from the difference of the highest weight characters in the unflavoured limit. We show that admissible even character…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-19 Sachin Grover