Given a compact hyperbolic surface together with a suitable choice of orthonormal basis of Laplace eigenforms, one can consider two natural spectral invariants: 1) the Laplace spectrum Lambda, and 2) the 3-tensor C_{ijk} representing pointwise multiplication (as a densely defined map L^2 x L^2 -> L^2) in the given basis. Which pairs (Lambda,C) arise this way? Both Lambda and C are highly transcendental objects. Nevertheless, we will give a concrete and almost completely algebraic answer to this question, by writing down necessary and sufficient conditions in the form of equations satisfied by the Laplace eigenvalues and the C_{ijk}. This answer was conjectured by physicists Kravchuk, Mazac, and Pal, who introduced these equations (in an equivalent form) as a rigorous model for the crossing equations in conformal field theory.