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arxiv:2609.39930

Large gaps and BTZ entropy in modular spectra with positive integer degeneracies

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Abstract

Modular-invariant torus partition functions with unique vacua and discrete spectra are built by recursively repairing the Maloney-Witten-Keller completion, achieving primary gaps near (c-1)/12 and matching smoothed BTZ density predictions at large central charge.

We construct modular-invariant torus partition functions with a unique vacuum, discrete energy levels and positive integer degeneracies by recursively repairing the Maloney--Witten--Keller modular completion of the Virasoro vacuum. Exact modular repairs and finite moment matching discretize successive spectral bands while preserving earlier levels and controlling convergence. For c_L=c_R=c and a=(c-1)/12, the construction realizes primary dimension gaps Δ_1=(1+κ)a for sufficiently small fixed κ>0, and Δ_1=a+δ for any fixed δge0, at every sufficiently large real c. Every nonvacuum primary satisfies h,bar hge(c-1)/24. In the fixed-δ family, spectra can be chosen whose densities of states, smoothed with a fixed nonnegative normalized smooth kernel of compact support, match the correspondingly smoothed prediction of a single perturbative BTZ saddle through every fixed finite order in 1/c. The count includes all spins and Virasoro descendants. Its logarithm reproduces the Bekenstein--Hawking entropy and its corrections at every fixed positive E/c, where E=Δ-c/12. This includes 0<E<c/12, where thermal AdS dominates the canonical ensemble.

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