Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pan, Yiwen, Wang, Yufan
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10569
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866914818167930880
author Pan, Yiwen
Wang, Yufan
author_facet Pan, Yiwen
Wang, Yufan
contents Flavored modular differential equations sometimes arise from null states or their descendants in a chiral algebra with continuous flavor symmetry. In this paper we focus on Kac-Moody algebras $\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}_k$ that contain a level-four null state $|\mathcal{N}_T\rangle$ which implements the nilpotency of the Sugawara stress tensor. We study the properties of the corresponding flavored modular differential equations, and show that the equations exhibit almost covariance under modular $S$-transformation, connecting null states and their descendants at different levels. The modular property of the equations fixes the structure of $\mathfrak{g}$ and the level $k$, as well as the flavored characters of all the highest weight representations. Shift property of the equations can generate non-vacuum characters starting from the vacuum character.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2306_10569
institution arXiv
publishDate 2023
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Flavored modular differential equations
Pan, Yiwen
Wang, Yufan
High Energy Physics - Theory
Flavored modular differential equations sometimes arise from null states or their descendants in a chiral algebra with continuous flavor symmetry. In this paper we focus on Kac-Moody algebras $\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}_k$ that contain a level-four null state $|\mathcal{N}_T\rangle$ which implements the nilpotency of the Sugawara stress tensor. We study the properties of the corresponding flavored modular differential equations, and show that the equations exhibit almost covariance under modular $S$-transformation, connecting null states and their descendants at different levels. The modular property of the equations fixes the structure of $\mathfrak{g}$ and the level $k$, as well as the flavored characters of all the highest weight representations. Shift property of the equations can generate non-vacuum characters starting from the vacuum character.
title Flavored modular differential equations
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10569