Spectra of Wess-Zumino-Witten models with arbitrary simple groups

DOI10.1007/BF01228414zbMath0642.22005OpenAlexW1975410067WikidataQ110701781 ScholiaQ110701781MaRDI QIDQ1101558

Giovanni Felder, Krzysztof Gawędzki, Antti Kupiainen

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01228414

zbMATH Keywords

Lie groupmodular invariant partition functionsWess-Zumino-Witten modelsfield theoretical modelshighest weight states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70)

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