New Semiclassical Non-Abelian Vertex Operators for Chiral and Nonchiral WZW Theory

DOI10.1142/S0217751X97002358MaRDI QIDQ4211955zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors M. B. Halperin, Niels A. Obers

Publication date 18 October 1998

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9610081

zbMATH Keywords

braid relationsprimary fields of WZW theorysemiclassical affine-Sugawara conformal blockssemiclassical non-abelian vertex operatorssemiclassical operator product expansions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) 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 supplement the discussion of Moore and Reshetikhin and others by finding new semiclassical nonabelian vertex operators for the chiral, antichiral and nonchiral primary fields of WZW theory. These new nonabelian vertex operators are the natural generalization of the familiar abelian vertex operators: They involve only the representation matrices of Lie $g$, the currents of affine $(gimesg)$ and certain chiral and antichiral zero modes, and they reduce to the abelian vertex operators in the limit of abelian algebras. Using the new constructions, we also discuss semiclassical operator product expansions, braid relations and relations to the known form of the semiclassical affine-Sugawara conformal blocks.

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