Verlinde algebras and the intersection form on vanishing cycles

DOI10.1007/S000290050006MaRDI QIDQ1360286zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sabir M. Gusein-Zade, A. Varchenko

Publication date 27 April 1999

Published in Selecta Mathematica. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9610058

zbMATH Keywords

fusion rulesMilnor latticesingularitiesVerlinde algebrasWZW model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Local complex singularities (32S05) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10)

Abstract: We prove Zuber's conjecture establishing connections of the fusion rules of the $su(N{)}_k$ WZW model of conformal field theory and the intersection form on vanishing cycles of the associated fusion potential.

Review text

Excerpts from the introduction of the article: ``We prove Zuber's conjecture establishing connections between the fusion rules of the \(su(N)_k\) WZW model of conformal field theory and the intersection form on vanishing cycles of the associated fusion potential. \dots{} We show that the lattice of the Verlinde algebra of \(su(N)_k\) with the bilinear form, the reflection group, and the Coxeter element is isomorphic to the lattice of vanishing cycles of the critical point of the short fusion potential together with the symmetric intersection form, the monodromy group, and the operator of classical monodromy,\dots{} As a corollary we prove another Zuber conjecture \dots{}, the level-rank duality.

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