Sphere packing and quantum gravity

Abstract We establish a precise relation between the modular bootstrap, used to con- strain the spectrum of 2D CFTs, and the sphere packing problem in Euclidean geometry. The modular bootstrap bound for chiral algebra U(1) c maps exactly to the Cohn-Elkies linear programming bound on the sphere pack...

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Main Authors: Thomas Hartman, Dalimil Mazáč, Leonardo Rastelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-12-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2019)048