Not doomed to fail

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2018)062zbMATH Open1398.81224arXiv1708.01563OpenAlexW2742278299MaRDI QIDQ1797299FDOQ1797299

Authors: Anne Taormina, Katrin Wendland 

Publication date: 19 October 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In their recent manuscript "An Uplifting Discussion of T-Duality", arXiv:1707.08888, J. Harvey and G. Moore have reevaluated a mod two condition appearing in asymmetric orbifold constructions as an obstruction to the description of certain symmetries of toroidal conformal field theories by means of automorphisms of the underlying charge lattice. The relevant "doomed to fail" condition determines whether or not such a lattice automorphism g may lift to a symmetry in the corresponding toroidal conformal field theory without introducing extra phases. If doomed to fail, then in some cases, the lift of g must have double the order of g. It is an interesting question, whether or not "geometric" symmetries are affected by these findings. In the present note, we answer this question in the negative, by means of elementary linear algebra: "geometric" symmetries of toroidal conformal field theories are not doomed to fail. Consequently, and in particular, the symmetry groups involved in symmetry surfing the moduli space of K3 theories do not differ from their lifts.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.01563

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theorysigma modelsdiscrete symmetriescharge lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27)

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