NEW DUALITY TRANSFORMATIONS IN ORBIFOLD THEORY

DOI10.1142/S0217751X00000586MaRDI QIDQ4486971zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jan de Boer, John E. Wang, Jarah Evslin, M. B. Halpern

Publication date 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9908187

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: We find new duality transformations which allow us to construct the stress tensors of all the twisted sectors of any orbifold A(H)/H, where A(H) is the set of all current-algebraic conformal field theories with a finite symmetry group H subset Aut(g). The permutation orbifolds with H = Z_lambda and H = S_3 are worked out in full as illustrations but the general formalism includes both simple and semisimple g. The motivation for this development is the recently-discovered orbifold Virasoro master equation, whose solutions are identified by the duality transformations as sectors of the permutation orbifolds A(D_lambda)/Z_lambda.

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