On the unitary nature of abelian conformal blocks

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2009.09.015MaRDI QIDQ2266910zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alex Boer, Eduard Looijenga

Publication date 26 February 2010

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0895

zbMATH Keywords

abelian conformal blocksHodge structuretheta functionsWess-Zumino-Witten connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic theory of abelian varieties (14K05) Theta functions and abelian varieties (14K25) Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65) 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: We determine the projectively flat unitary structure on abelian conformal blocks in terms of WZW-data.

Review text

Conformal field theory has inspired mathematicians to study abelian conformal blocks as a subject of algebraic geometry. Although their space coincides with the space of theta functions, this well-known equivalence has not yet been made sufficiently clear. This paper tries to clarify the equivalence and determines the projectively flat unitary structure of abelian conformal blocks in terms of Wess-Zumino-Witten data. It should be emphasized that the present treatment is purely algebraic to the extent that at no point the reader encounters a theta function.

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Cites work

• ABELIAN CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY AND DETERMINANT BUNDLES
• The Weil representation, Maslov index and theta series

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• Unitarity of SL(2)-conformal blocks in genus zero

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