Affine orbifolds and rational conformal field theory extensions of W₁+

DOI10.1007/S002200050234zbMATH Open0904.17021arXivhep-th/9612078OpenAlexW1968234121MaRDI QIDQ1379682FDOQ1379682

Authors: Victor G. Kac, Ivan Todorov 

Publication date: 25 February 1998

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

Abstract: Chiral orbifold models are defined as gauge field theories with a finite gauge group $Gamma$. We start with a conformal current algebra A associated with a connected compact Lie group G and a negative definite integral invariant bilinear form on its Lie algebra. Any finite group $Gamma$ of inner automorphisms or A (in particular, any finite subgroup of G) gives rise to a gauge theory with a chiral subalgebra $A^{Gamma}subsetA$ of local observables invariant under $Gamma$. A set of positive energy $A^{Gamma}$ modules is constructed whose characters span, under some assumptions on $Gamma$, a finite dimensional unitary representation of $SL(2,Z)$. We compute their asymptotic dimensions (thus singling out the nontrivial orbifold modules) and find explicit formulae for the modular transformations and hence, for the fusion rules. As an application we construct a family of rational conformal field theory (RCFT) extensions of $W_{1+infty}$ that appear to provide a bridge between two approaches to the quantum Hall effect.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9612078

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zbMATH Keywords

Kac-Moody algebraschiral algebrasrational conformal field theorytwisted moduleslocal observablesasymptotic dimensionstwisted charactersWZNW-models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relationship to Lie algebras and finite simple groups (11F22) 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) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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