The action of outer automorphisms on bundles of chiral blocks (Q1961074)

The authors construct isomorphisms on the bundles of WZW chiral blocks over the moduli space of a punctured rational curve that implement the action of outer automorphisms of the underlying affine Lie algebra. These isomorphisms respect Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov connection and have finite order. The authors also propose a conjecture for the trace formula in the case when all primary fields are fixed points. This generalizes the Verlinde formula. In four appendices some details of various calculations are presented. The results of the paper have applications to conformal field theories based on non-simply connected groups and to classification of boundary conditions in such theories.