WZW fusion rings in the limit of infinite level

DOI10.1007/S002200050104zbMATH Open0890.17027arXivhep-th/9609124OpenAlexW2066751074MaRDI QIDQ1363119FDOQ1363119

Authors: Jürgen Fuchs, Christoph Schweigert 

Publication date: 8 December 1997

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

Abstract: We show that the WZW fusion rings at finite levels form a projective system with respect to the partial ordering provided by divisibility of the height, i.e. the level shifted by a constant. From this projective system we obtain WZW fusion rings in the limit of infinite level. This projective limit constitutes a mathematically well-defined prescription for the `classical limit' of WZW theories which replaces the naive idea of `sending the level to infinity'. The projective limit can be endowed with a natural topology, which plays an important role for studying its structure. The representation theory of the limit can be worked out by considering the associated fusion algebra; this way we obtain in particular an analogue of the Verlinde formula.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9609124

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zbMATH Keywords

Kac-Moody algebrasfusion ringsVerlinde formularational conformal field theoryWZW-modelprojective systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) 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) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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