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Modular matrices of 2d Carrollian and warped CFTs

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Pith's one-line read The paper derives explicit modular S and T matrices for 2d Carrollian and warped CFT characters, showing S^2=1 for Carrollian theories and S^2 equal to charge conjugation for warped theories.

desk verdict Explicit S/T matrices for Carrollian and warped CFTs, but the derivation's key step is only justified on the real axis. read the letter →

arxiv 2501.12450 v2 pith:F2E4QB7W submitted 2025-01-21 hep-th

Ankit Aggarwal , Joan Simón This is my paper · ORCID
classification hep-th PACS 11.25.Hf
keywords modularS-matrixT-matrixCarrollianCFTwarpedbms3algebraVirasorou(1)Kac-Moodycharactertransformationschargeconjugation
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The reading

This paper tries to establish explicit modular S and T matrices for the characters of two families of non-relativistic two-dimensional conformal field theories: Carrollian CFTs, whose symmetry is the bms3 algebra, and warped CFTs, whose symmetry is one Virasoro copy in a semi-direct product with a u(1) Kac-Moody algebra. The derivations cover several representation families: highest-weight and induced for Carrollian, and non-unitary (imaginary charge) and unitary for warped. The S matrices are written as explicit integral kernels in Liouville-like momenta, while the T matrices are phase factors times delta functions. A central check is that these kernels implement the character transformations, with $S^{2}$=1 for Carrollian characters and, for warped characters, SS^dagger=1 and $S^{2}$=C where C flips the u(1) charge. The motivation is that these theories are candidate holographic duals for flat and warped three-dimensional gravity, where modular data controls Cardy-like growth and near-extremal behaviour.

What carries the argument

The engine is a delta-function localization: for characters of the form $\chi=\exp[2\pi i\tau P_\tau]\exp[2\pi i z s(p)]/G(\eta(\tau))$, an ansatz $S=A(p,p')\exp[-2\pi i(\gamma(p,p')P_\tau+\gamma(p',p)P'_\tau)]$ produces a delta function $\delta(\tau-\gamma(p,p'))$ that localizes the $p$-integral. Matching the remaining $P'_\tau$ and $z$ exponentials fixes $\gamma(p',p_\star)=1/\tau$ and $s(p_\star)/s(p')=z'/z$, and the normalization is fixed by the modular transformation of $G(\eta(\tau))$, typically through the eta-function identity $\eta(-1/\tau)=\sqrt{-i\tau}\eta(\tau)$. This mechanism turns the modular S-transformation into a Fourier-like kernel without assuming factorization of the characters.

What would settle it

Take the highest-weight Carrollian S matrix (4.16), insert it into the defining equation (4.7) with tau = i (so Im tau > 0), and numerically evaluate the double integral; if the result differs from the character at (-1/i, rho/$i^{2}$) by more than numerical error, the claimed S matrix fails outside the real-tau line where the derivation was performed.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central discovery is that the characters of 2d Carrollian and warped CFT algebras admit modular S and T matrices of a definite, closed form, provided the quantum numbers are parametrized by Liouville-type momenta. For Carrollian highest-weight representations the non-vacuum S kernel is $S_{\rm car}(P'_L,P'_M;P_L,P_M)=2\frac{|P'_M|}{|P_M|^2}\frac{P_M}{P'_M}\sin\left[2\pi\left(\frac{P'_M}{P_M}P_L+\frac{P_M}{P'_M}P'_L\right)\right]$, the induced-representation kernel is $S_{\rm car}^{\rm ind}=2/|P_M|\cos[2\pi(\frac{P'_M}{P_M}P_L+\frac{P_M}{P'_M}P'_L)]$, and the warped kernels, for imaginary and real charge, are $S=i\frac{p}{p'}\frac{|p'|}{|p|^2}\exp[-2\pi i(\frac{p'}{p}P_W+\frac{p}{p'}P'_W)]$. The paper verifies that these kernels transform the characters correctly under $\tau\to-1/\tau$ (with the appropriate transformation of the second modular parameter) and that $S^2=1$ for the Carrollian kernels, while for the warped kernels $S S^\dagger=1$ and $S^2$ equals charge conjugation, $p\to-p$. The T matrices are computed as $e^{-i\pi/6}\delta(\ldots)$ or $e^{-i\pi/12}\delta(\ldots)$ for the respective cases. The derivation does not rely on character factorization, and the paper notes that the method breaks down for non-unitary warped CFTs with real charge because the descendant factor $\eta(2\tau)$ lacks a universal modular transformation.

Load-bearing premise

The derivation assumes the delta-function localization, which is only rigorously valid for real tau, can be extended to the upper half-plane where torus modular transformations are defined; the paper gives no analytic-continuation argument.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The Carrollian modular S matrices (4.16) and (4.32) satisfy S^2=1 when acting on characters, reproducing the group relation of the Carrollian modular group.
  • The warped modular S matrices (5.12) and (5.16) satisfy SS^dagger=1 and S^2=C, where C implements p to -p, showing the characters form a non-faithful (projective) representation of the modular group due to the u(1) symmetry.
  • The T matrices are trivial up to a phase: e^{-i pi/6} or e^{-i pi/12} times delta functions in the quantum numbers, so the characters' T-transformation comes entirely from the Dedekind eta factor.
  • For Carrollian induced representations, the absolute value |eta(sigma)| makes characters T-invariant, so the T matrix is just the identity kernel.
  • The S kernels provide a route to the density of primary states (Cardy-like growth) in these theories, as the paper states it will report elsewhere.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the S matrices hold beyond the real-tau line, the continuous-spectrum Fourier-like kernels suggest that any fusion or braiding coefficients for these algebras, if they exist, will also take the form of oscillatory integral kernels, a natural next step the paper does not pursue.
  • The failure for non-unitary real-charge warped CFTs (due to eta(2tau)) hints that a full modular theory for that sector may require generalized eta functions or a different parameterization; one testable extension is to look for a kernel using eta(tau/2) or a Jacobi-form completion.
  • Because the method produces S^2=C for warped theories, one can predict that modular invariant partition functions in these theories, when combined with a charge-conjugation invariant spectrum, must project onto the C-invariant sector; this could be checked against known warped CFT partition functions.
  • The delta-function localization is formally a stationary-phase/plane-wave decomposition, so the same technique might apply to other solvable characters (e.g., higher-spin or BMS-type algebras) provided the descendant factor G(eta) has a known modular transformation.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper derives modular S and T matrices for characters of two-dimensional Carrollian CFTs (bms3 algebra) in highest-weight and induced representations, and for warped CFTs in non-unitary imaginary-charge and unitary real-charge representations. The method assumes an exponential ansatz for the S kernel and uses delta-function localization to solve the defining integral equation, after which the authors verify properties such as S^2=1 for Carrollian characters and SS^dagger=1, S^2=C for warped characters. The T matrices are found to be essentially identity matrices with phases. The paper explicitly notes that its localization procedure only works for real torus modulus when the localization function is real, but proceeds to present the results without supplying an analytic-continuation argument.

Significance. If established rigorously, the results would provide explicit modular kernels for non-Lorentzian CFT characters, which are relevant for flat-space holography, warped AdS/CFT, and Cardy-like density-of-states computations. The paper contains several concrete algebraic checks, including explicit verification of S^2, unitarity, and charge-conjugation properties, which are valuable and go beyond a purely formal proposal. However, the central defect is that the defining modular-transformation property is only demonstrated on the real axis for the torus modulus, whereas the characters are holomorphic functions on the upper half plane. This is a load-bearing gap, not a cosmetic issue.

major comments (2)
  1. [Section 3, Eqs. (3.6)-(3.11); Section 4.1, Eqs. (4.16)-(4.17)] The derivation of the Carrollian S matrix relies on delta-function localization at a complex torus modulus, but the localization condition (3.7), gamma(p',p_star)=1/tau, has no solution on the real integration contour when gamma is real and Im tau > 0. In the explicit calculation (4.17), the step delta(sigma +/- P'_M/P_M) = delta(P_M +/- P'_M/sigma) |P'_M|/(|P_M||sigma|) treats sigma as a real variable; for Im sigma > 0 the support lies off the real P_M axis and the standard Jacobian formula does not apply. The paper itself notes in Section 3 that for real gamma the procedure only works for real tau, but no analytic-continuation argument is supplied. Since the characters are holomorphic functions on the upper half plane and are not ordinary functions on the real axis, this leaves the central claim--that (4.16) is the modular S matrix acting on torus characters--unproven for the physical domain Im sigma > 0.
  2. [Section 5.1, Eq. (5.12); Section 5.2, Eq. (5.16)] The same deficiency affects the warped S matrices. In both cases gamma(p_im,p'_im)=p'_im/p_im (or p'/p) is real for real momenta, so the condition (3.7) cannot be satisfied for Im tau > 0; the derivations of (5.12) and (5.16) are therefore formal real-axis computations. The subsequent checks SS^dagger=1 and S^2=C in Section 5.3 are algebraic kernel identities independent of tau and do not repair the missing modular-transformation proof on the upper half plane.
minor comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and Section 5.1] The abstract claims modular matrices for 'two dimensional Carrollian and warped CFT algebras' broadly, but Section 5.1 explains that the method fails for non-unitary warped CFTs with real charge; the summary of results should explicitly exclude that case.
  2. [Eq. (5.25)] The lower integration limit in the first double integral is printed as '∞' instead of '−∞'; the same typo appears in the surrounding line.
  3. [Section 3, Eq. (3.7)] The notation is slightly confusing: Eq. (3.7) states gamma(p',p_star)=1/tau, and the following line multiplies by tau; it would help to state explicitly that p_star is the solution of tau=gamma(p_star,p') and therefore depends on tau and p'.

Circularity Check

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No circular derivation: the S/T matrices solve the defining modular integral equations, and the algebraic properties are verified after the fact, not assumed.

full rationale

The paper's central derivation is not circular. It defines the modular S-matrix as the kernel relating direct-channel and S-transformed characters (Eqs. (3.2), (3.4), (4.7), (5.4), (5.9)); it then adopts an explicit exponential ansatz (3.5) and solves for the functions γ and A by matching the two sides after delta-function localization (conditions (3.7)-(3.11)). The final kernels (4.16), (4.32), (5.12), (5.16) are therefore solutions of the defining equation by construction, and the paper demonstrates this explicitly, e.g. in (4.17). The algebraic properties S² = 1, S S† = 1, and S² = C are not inputs: they are checked by direct integrals in (4.24)-(4.25) and (5.21)-(5.26) after the kernels are fixed. The T-matrices follow from the known η(τ+1) phase and the character dependence, not from a fitted parameter. The only self-citations, [45] and [47], provide notation for warped characters and an announced future application respectively; the characters themselves are taken from independent references [43,48,49], and the Virasoro S-matrix is rederived from a standard Gaussian integral. The paper explicitly flags the limitation that for real γ the delta-localization method is only valid for real τ (Section 3), and that it fails for non-unitary warped CFTs with real charge (Section 5.1); these are domain-of-validity caveats, not signs that the result reduces to its assumptions. No quoted step exhibits a fitted parameter renamed as a prediction or a definition engineered to force the claimed output. The exponential ansatz is admittedly ad hoc, but an unproven ansatz affects the range of kernels found, not circularity, because the verification of modular properties is over and above the ansatz.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on known character formulas and modular transformation laws, plus a new exponential ansatz for the S matrix. No free parameters are fitted to data, and no new physical entities are introduced.

assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption Known character formulas for bms3 highest weight (Eq. 4.5), bms3 induced (Eq. 4.29), non-unitary warped with imaginary charge (Eq. 5.7), and unitary warped (Eq. 5.15) are correct.
    The derivation takes these formulas from Refs. [43, 48, 49] as input; if these characters are wrong, the S and T matrices do not describe the stated algebras.
  • domain assumption The torus modular transformations are S: (sigma,rho) -> (-1/sigma,rho/sigma^2) and T: (sigma+1,rho) for Carrollian CFTs, and S: (tau,z) -> (-1/tau,z/tau) and T: (tau+1,z) for warped CFTs.
    Quoted from Refs. [13, 14, 47] for Carrollian and [9] for warped; all S-matrix computations use these rules.
  • ad hoc to paper The S-matrix ansatz has the form A(p,p') exp(-2 pi i [gamma(p,p') P_tau + gamma(p',p) P'_tau]) and is symmetric in the quantum numbers.
    The ansatz (3.5) is assumed without derivation; it excludes S matrices that are not of this exponential, delta-localizing form.
  • standard math Standard Gaussian integral (2.8) and Dedekind eta modular transformation (2.11) hold.
    Used to evaluate integrals and descendant contributions; these are standard mathematical results.
  • ad hoc to paper Delta-function manipulations extend to complex modular parameters by analytic continuation.
    The paper does not prove this extension; it notes in Section 3 that the method only works for real tau when gamma is real.

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We derive the modular S and T matrices that generate the modular transformations on the characters of two dimensional Carrollian and warped CFT algebras. We verify that they satisfy some of their defining properties.

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