Congruence subgroups and rational conformal field theory

Details Congruence subgroups and rational conformal field theory Congruence subgroups and rational conformal field theory

1999-09-15

arxiv.org/abs/math/9909080v1

Mathematics

Quantum Algebra

20 pp, plain tex

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We address here the question of whether the characters of an RCFT are modular functions for some level N, i.e. whether the representation of the modular group SL_2(Z) coming from any RCFT is trivial on some congruence subgroup. We prove that if the matrix T, associated to $(\matrix{1&1\cr 0&1})\in{\rm SL}_2(\Z)$, has ODD order, then this must be so. When the order of T is even, we present a simple test which if satisfied -- and we conjecture it always will be -- implies that the characters for that RCFT will also be level N. We use this to explain three curious observations in RCFT made by various authors.

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