Modular and conformal invariance constraints in representation theory of affine algebras

DOI10.1016/0001-8708(88)90055-2zbMath0661.17016OpenAlexW2079229532MaRDI QIDQ1112945

Minoru Wakimoto, Victor G. Kac

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0001-8708(88)90055-2

zbMATH Keywords

generating functionsmodular functionscentral chargeasymptotic behaviourVirasoro algebraconformal invarianceaffine Lie algebrastring functionsintegrable highest weight representationaffine subalgebrabranching functions

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) Modular and automorphic functions (11F03) Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65)

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