BCT Letter 37: Ramanujan's Vacuum — The BCT Superfluid Lattice as the Physical Realisation of the Bosonic String on the D4 Root Lattice
Abstract
We demonstrate that the BCT Superfluid Lattice Model is the unique physical realisation of the critical bosonic string theory compactified on the D4 root lattice. Three independent lines of evidence converge: (i) the D4 kissing number 24 is identical to the number of transverse bosonic string modes, (ii) the BCT instanton action S_D4 = π5/6 is the evaluation of the Ramanujan discriminant at the modular CM point τ = i, and (iii) the 0.075% residual in the BCT mass hierarchy formula is identified as the genus-1 string amplitude correction. BCT resolves the non-determinism of general relativity: GR emerges from a fully deterministic superfluid substrate. The Ramanujan tau function τ(n) is reinterpreted as the degeneracy spectrum of the quantum vacuum.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
Advanced Mathematical Theories and Applications
Relativity and Gravitational Theory
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 1 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Preprint