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Compactness and deformation dimension of the CFT moduli stack

Prove that the moduli stack M_{c≤c0}^{E_min} of irreducible unitary Conformal Field Theories with central charge c≤c0 and minimal positive conformal dimension at least E_min is a compact real-analytic stack of finite local dimension, and determine that the base of the miniversal deformation of any given CFT has dimension at most dim H^{1,1}.

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Background

The paper considers CFTs with bounded central charge and a lower bound on the minimal positive eigenvalue of L_0+L̄0 (the spectral gap). The proposed moduli object M{c≤c0}{E_min} is expected to have good analytic and compactness properties.

Bounding the local dimension of the miniversal deformation base by dim H{1,1} reflects a specific cohomological control over deformations within the CFT framework.

References

Conjecture ${\cal M}{c\le c_0}{E{min}$ is a compact real analytic stack of finite local dimension. The dimension of the base of the minimal versal deformation of a given CFT is less or equal than $dim\,H{1,1}$.

Moduli space of Conformal Field Theories and non-commutative Riemannian geometry (2506.00896 - Soibelman, 1 Jun 2025) in Section 2.2, Moduli space of Conformal Field Theories