From WZW models to Modular Functors

zbMATH Open1322.14011arXiv1009.2245MaRDI QIDQ2950752FDOQ2950752

Authors: Eduard Looijenga 

Publication date: 9 October 2015

Abstract: In this survey paper (which supersedes our earlier arXiv preprint math.AG/0507086) we give a relatively simple and coordinate free description of the WZW model as a local system whose base is a G_m-bundle on the moduli stack of pointed curves. We derive its main properties and show how it leads to a modular functor in the spirit of Graeme Segal (except for unitarity). The approach presented here is almost purely algebro-geometric in character; it avoids the Boson-Fermion correspondence, operator product expansions as well as Teichmueller theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2245

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to algebraic geometry (14-02) Stacks and moduli problems (14D23)

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