Modular transformations of SU(N) affine characters and their commutant

DOI10.1007/BF02104506MaRDI QIDQ915847zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michel Bauer, C. Itzykson

Publication date 1990

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02104506

zbMATH Keywords

characters of integrable representationsKac-Moody algebramodular group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) 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 lattices (81T25)

Review text

The authors examine the action of the modular group on the characters of integrable representations of the Kac-Moody algebra associated to SU(N). Let S and T denote the generators of the modular group, a basis of the algebra of matrices commuting with S and T is described by orbits under the modular action on \(G_ n\times G_ n\), where \(G_ n\) denotes a quotient of the weight lattice of SU(N). It is proved that there is a basis consisting of matrices with integral entries, i.e. a basis of the subalgebra over the rationals of the commutant of S and T. The case \(N=3\) is discussed in some detail by use of an interpretation of the weight lattice as a quadratic field.

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