Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Organization
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Modular forms and their variants
- 2 Elliptic functions
- 3 Modular forms for SL(2; Z)
- 4 Variants of modular forms
- 5 Quantum fields on a torus
- 6 Congruence subgroups and modular curves
- 7 Modular forms for congruence subgroups
- 8 Modular derivatives and vector-valued modular forms
- 9 Modular graph functions and forms
- Part II Extensions and applications
- Part III Appendix
- References
- Index
5 - Quantum fields on a torus
from Part I - Modular forms and their variants
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Organization
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Modular forms and their variants
- 2 Elliptic functions
- 3 Modular forms for SL(2; Z)
- 4 Variants of modular forms
- 5 Quantum fields on a torus
- 6 Congruence subgroups and modular curves
- 7 Modular forms for congruence subgroups
- 8 Modular derivatives and vector-valued modular forms
- 9 Modular graph functions and forms
- Part II Extensions and applications
- Part III Appendix
- References
- Index
Summary
Some immediate applications of the theory of elliptic functions and modular forms to problems of physical interest are presented, including the construction of the Green functions and functional determinants for the two-dimensional quantum field theories of the bc fields, the scalar field, and the spinor fields on the torus. In particular, it will be shown how the singular terms in the operator product expansion of holomorphic fields for the bc system essentially determine arbitrary correlation functions on the torus in terms of elliptic functions. Along the way, a brief but reasonably systematic introduction will be presented of two-dimensional conformal field theory methods.
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- Modular Forms and String Theory , pp. 95 - 120Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024