Bootstrapping chiral CFTs at genus two

Authors
Publication date 2018
Journal Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
Volume | Issue number 22 | 6
Pages (from-to) 1447-1487
Number of pages 41
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP)
Abstract

Genus two partition functions of 2d chiral conformal field theories are given by Siegel modular forms. We compute their conformal blocks and use them to perform the conformal bootstrap. The advantage of this approach is that it imposes crossing symmetry of an infinite family of four point functions and also modular invariance at the same time. Since for a fixed central charge the ring of Siegel modular forms is finite dimensional, we can perform this analytically. In this way we derive bounds on three point functions and on the spectrum of such theories.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.4310/atmp.2018.v22.n6.a3
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85065128205
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