Partition functions for heterotic WZW conformal field theories.

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(93)90127-BMaRDI QIDQ1966079zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Terry Gannon

Publication date 5 March 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9209042

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) 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: Thus far in the search for, and classification of, `physical' modular invariant partition functions $sum{N}_{LR},c_L,C_R$ the attention has been focused on the {it symmetric} case where the holomorphic and anti-holomorphic sectors, and hence the characters $c_L$ and $c_R$, are associated with the same Kac-Moody algebras $g_L=g_R$ and levels $k_L=k_R$. In this paper we consider the more general possibility where $(g_L,k_L)$ may not equal $(g_R,k_R)$. We discuss which choices of algebras and levels may correspond to well-defined conformal field theories, we find the `smallest' such {it heterotic} (ie asymmetric) partition functions, and we give a method, generalizing the Roberts-Terao-Warner lattice method, for explicitly constructing many other modular invariants. We conclude the paper by proving that this new lattice method will succeed in generating all the heterotic partition functions, for all choices of algebras and levels.

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