Non-chiral 2d CFT with integer energy levels

作者:Ashrafi M*; Loran F
来源:The Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016, 2016(9): 121.
DOI:10.1007/JHEP09(2016)121

摘要

The partition function of 2d conformal field theory is a modular invariant function. It is known that the partition function of a holomorphic CFT whose central charge is a multiple of 24 is a polynomial in the Klein function. In this paper, by using the medium temperature expansion we show that every modular invariant partition function can be mapped to a holomorphic partition function whose structure can be determined similarly. We use this map to study partition function of CFTs with half-integer left and right conformal weights. We show that the corresponding left and right central charges are necessarily multiples of 4. Furthermore, the degree of degeneracy of high-energy levels can be uniquely determined in terms of the degeneracy in the low energy states.

  • 出版日期2016-9-20