Bosonic Ghosts at $c=2$ as a Logarithmic CFT
Abstract
Motivated by Wakimoto free field realisations, the bosonic ghost system of central charge is studied using a recently proposed formalism for logarithmic conformal field theories. This formalism addresses the modular properties of the theory with the aim being to determine the (Grothendieck) fusion coefficients from a variant of the Verlinde formula. The key insight, in the case of bosonic ghosts, is to introduce a family of parabolic Verma modules which dominate the spectrum of the theory. The results include S-transformation formulae for characters, non-negative integer Verlinde coefficients, and a family of modular invariant partition functions. The logarithmic nature of the corresponding ghost theories is explicitly verified using the Nahm-Gaberdiel-Kausch fusion algorithm.
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@article{arxiv.1408.4185,
title = {Bosonic Ghosts at $c=2$ as a Logarithmic CFT},
author = {David Ridout and Simon Wood},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.4185},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
17 pages, one figure; v2: added refs and rewrote a little of the parabolic subalgebra discussion in Sec. 3 (no change to results); v3: added a sketch proof of Prop. 1, several clarifications and a few more refs (again, no change to results)