The automorphisms of affine fusion rings.

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: The fusion rings associated to affine Kac-Moody algebras appear in several different contexts in math and mathematical physics. In this paper we find all automorphisms of all affine fusion rings, or equivalently the symmetries of the corresponding fusion coefficients. Most of these are directly related to symmetries of the corresponding Coxeter-Dynkin diagram. We also find all pairs of isomorphic affine fusion rings.

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Starting from one of the non-twisted Kac-Moody algebras \(X_r^{(1)}\) and chosen level \(k\) the Kac-Petersen \(S\)-matrix can be defined. This \(S\)-matrix determines the fusing ring \(R(X_{r,k})\). The goal of this article is to determine the automorphism of the fusion rings (i.e. the fusion symmetry). First some of the necessary back-ground is reviewed. It is shown that fusion symmetries determine symmetries of the \(S\)-matrices (\(S\)-symmetry) and vice-versa. Simple currents determine an \(S\)-symmetry and hence a fusion symmetry. The author calls these automorphisms simple-current-automorphisms. All other automorphisms are called exceptional. As another construction, Galois-fusion-symmetries are discussed. For each of the affine algebras \(X_r^{(1)}\) (for \(X_r\) simple) a complete list of symmetries is given. It is shown that for \(X_r^{(1)}\) and sufficiently high level \(k\) the fusion symmetries consists entirely of simple-current-automorphisms and conjugations. In the proof of the completeness of the list, the \(q\)-dimension, its relation to the \(S\)-matrix, and the symmetry group of the extended Dynkin diagram of \(X_r^{(1)}\) is used. For some of the proofs, the author refers to \textit{T. Gannon, Ph. Ruelle} and \textit{M. A. Walton} [Commun. Math. Phys. 179, 121--156 (1996; Zbl 0897.17019)]. The article closes with a theorem giving the complete list of fusion ring isomorphisms \(R(X_{r,k})\cong R(Y_{s,m})\) if \(X_{r,k}\neq Y_{s,m}\) (\(X_r\) and \(Y_s\) simple). In most cases they are not isomorphic.

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