Higher-genussu(N) fusion multiplicities as polytope volumes

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/47/312MaRDI QIDQ4468217zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Flynn, Jørgen Rasmussen, M. Tahić, Mark A. Walton

Publication date 10 June 2004

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0209020

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

Abstract: We show how higher-genus su(N) fusion multiplicities may be computed as the discretized volumes of certain polytopes. The method is illustrated by explicit analyses of some su(3) and su(4) fusions, but applies to all higher-point and higher-genus su(N) fusions. It is based on an extension of the realm of Berenstein-Zelevinsky triangles by including so-called gluing and loop-gluing diagrams. The identification of the loop-gluing diagrams is our main new result, since they enable us to characterize higher-genus fusions in terms of polytopes. Also, the genus-2 0-point su(3) fusion multiplicity is found to be a simple binomial coefficient in the affine level.

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