On the characters of parafermionic field theories

DOI10.1007/S11005-015-0764-ZMaRDI QIDQ2351189zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Doron Gepner

Publication date 23 June 2015

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.1778

zbMATH Keywords

affine algebrasconformal field theorygeneralized Rogers-Ramanujan identities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

Abstract: We study cosets of the type $H_l/U(1{)}^r$, where $H$ is any Lie algebra at level $l$ and rank $r$. These theories are parafermionic and their characters are related to the string functions, which are generating functions for the multiplicities of weights in the affine representations. An identity for the characters is described, which apply to all the algebras and all the levels. The expression is of the Rogers Ramanujan type. We verify this conjecture, for many algebras and levels, using Freudenthal Kac formula, which calculates the multiplicities in the affine representations, recursively, up to some grade. Our conjecture encapsulates all the known results about these string functions, along with giving a vast wealth of new ones.

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• Parafermionic character formulae.
• Generalized Rogers-Ramanujan identities for twisted affine algebras
• Fermionic characters for graded parafermions
• The \(\operatorname{SU}(r)_{2}\) string functions as \(q\)-diagrams

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• Parafermionic bases of standard modules for affine Lie algebras
• Characters of graded parafermion conformal field theory
• The \(\operatorname{SU}(r)_{2}\) string functions as \(q\)-diagrams
• Generalized Rogers-Ramanujan identities for twisted affine algebras
• Parafermionic character formulae.
• Higher string functions, higher-level Appell functions, and the logarithmic \(\widehat{\mathrm{sl}}(2)_k/u(1)\) CFT model

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