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An Application of Mirror Extensions

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In this paper we apply our previous results of mirror extensions to obtain realizations of three modular invariants constructed by A. N. Schellekens by holomorphic conformal nets with central charge equal to 24.

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Xu, F. An Application of Mirror Extensions. Commun. Math. Phys. 290, 83–103 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-008-0700-5

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