Journal of High Energy Physics (Apr 2019)

Genus two modular bootstrap

  • Minjae Cho,
  • Scott Collier,
  • Xi Yin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2019)022
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2019, no. 4
pp. 1 – 23

Abstract

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Abstract We study the Virasoro conformal block decomposition of the genus two partition function of a two-dimensional CFT by expanding around a ℤ3-invariant Riemann surface that is a three-fold cover of the Riemann sphere branched at four points, and explore constraints from genus two modular invariance and unitarity. In particular, we find “critical surfaces” that constrain the structure constants of a CFT beyond what is accessible via the crossing equation on the sphere.

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