Affine orbifolds and rational conformal field theory extensions of W₁+

DOI10.1007/S002200050234MaRDI QIDQ1379682zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Victor G. Kac, Ivan Todorov

Publication date 25 February 1998

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

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

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)

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.

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