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We numerically determine the S-matrix by using connection formulae in the modular linear differential equation (MLDE) approach to the holomorphic modular bootstrap. We then determine exact formulae using the fact that entries in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Suresh Govindarajan , Aditya Jain , Akhila Sadanandan , Abhiram Kidambi

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

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

Studies of modular linear differential equations (MLDE) for the classification of rational CFT characters have been limited to the case where the coefficient functions (in monic form) have no poles, or poles at special points of moduli…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-19 Arpit Das , Chethan N. Gowdigere , Sunil Mukhi , Jagannath Santara

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

In the Mathur-Mukhi-Sen (MMS) classification scheme for rational conformal field theories (RCFTs), a RCFT is identified by a pair of non-negative integers $\mathbf{[n, \ell]}$, with $\mathbf{n}$ being the number of characters and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-03 Chethan N. Gowdigere , Sachin Kala , Jagannath Santara

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

In the modular linear differential equation (MLDE) approach to classifying rational conformal field theories (RCFTs) both the MLDE and the RCFT are identified by a pair of non-negative integers $\textbf{[n,l]}$. $\mathbf{n}$ is the number…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Arpit Das , Chethan N. Gowdigere , Jagannath Santara

We revisit (3,0) and (3,3) admissible solutions obtained using the MLDE method. We show that all $(3,0)$ solutions can be written in terms of a universal formula involving the ${}_3F_2$ hypergeometric function that takes into account the…

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

Using the numerical modular bootstrap, we constrain the space of 1+1d CFTs with a finite non-invertible global symmetry described by a fusion category $\mathcal{C}$. We derive universal and rigorous upper bounds on the lightest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao

Progress towards the classification of the meromorphic $c=24$ conformal field theories is reported. It is shown if such a theory has any spin-1 currents, it is either the Leech lattice CFT, or it can be written as a tensor product of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 A. N. Schellekens

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

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

A characterization of the minimal $\mathcal{W}$-algebras associated with the Deligne exceptional series at level $-h^\vee/6$ is obtained by using one-parameter family of modular linear differential equations of order $4$. In particular, the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-03-07 Kazuya Kawasetsu , Yuichi Sakai

We initiate the S-matrix bootstrap analysis of theories with non-invertible symmetries in (1+1) dimensions. Our previous work showed that crossing symmetry of S-matrices in such theories is modified, with modification characterized by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-04 Christian Copetti , Lucia Cordova , Shota Komatsu

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

The main result of this paper is a generalization of the classical blossom algorithm for finding perfect matchings. Our algorithm can efficiently solve Boolean CSPs where each variable appears in exactly two constraints (we call it edge…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Alexandr Kazda , Vladimir Kolmogorov , Michal Rolínek

The crossing equations of a conformal field theory can be systematically truncated to a finite, closed system of polynomial equations. In certain cases, solutions of the truncated equations place strict bounds on the space of all unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi , Thomas Hartman , Amirhossein Tajdini

In this paper, we attempt to explore the landscape of two-dimensional conformal field theories (2d CFTs) by efficiently searching for numerical solutions to the modular bootstrap equation using machine-learning-style optimization. The torus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Nathan Benjamin , A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Wei Li , Jesse Thaler

We develop new methods for approximating conformal blocks as positive functions times polynomials, with applications to the numerical bootstrap. We argue that to obtain accurate bootstrap bounds, conformal block approximations should…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Cyuan-Han Chang , Vasiliy Dommes , Petr Kravchuk , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin
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