Modular invariant partition functions and method of shift vector

DOI10.1063/1.530770MaRDI QIDQ4296083zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Shirzad, H. Arfaei

Publication date 15 June 1994

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9301016

zbMATH Keywords

affine Lie algebrasconformal field theoriesmodular invariantspartition functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

Abstract: Using shift vector method we obtain a large class of self-dual lattices of dimension $(l,l)$, which has a one to one correspondence with modular invariants of free bosonic theory compactified on co-root lattice of a rank $l$ Lie group. Then a large number of modular invariants of affine Lie algebras are derived explicitly. As two applications of this method, we give a direct derivation of $D$-series of $SU(N)$ and a new proof for the A-D-E classification of the $SU(2{)}_k$ partition functions.

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• Operator content of two-dimensional conformally invariant theories
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