The three-dimensional origin of the classifying algebra

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.07.017MaRDI QIDQ1960156zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jürgen Fuchs, Christoph Schweigert, Carl Stigner

Publication date 12 October 2010

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0685

zbMATH Keywords

boundary conditionsclassifying algebraconformal blocksconformal field theoryfactorization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: It is known that reflection coefficients for bulk fields of a rational conformal field theory in the presence of an elementary boundary condition can be obtained as representation matrices of irreducible representations of the classifying algebra, a semisimple commutative associative complex algebra. We show how this algebra arises naturally from the three-dimensional geometry of factorization of correlators of bulk fields on the disk. This allows us to derive explicit expressions for the structure constants of the classifying algebra as invariants of ribbon graphs in the three-manifold S^2 x S^1. Our result unravels a precise relation between intertwiners of the action of the mapping class group on spaces of conformal blocks and boundary conditions in rational conformal field theories.

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