Conformal blocks and equivariant cohomology

zbMATH Open1259.81080arXiv1007.3155MaRDI QIDQ4902633FDOQ4902633

Authors: Richárd Rimányi, Vadim Schechtman, A. Varchenko 

Publication date: 17 January 2013

Abstract: We show that the conformal blocks constructed in the previous article by the first and the third author may be described as certain integrals in equivariant cohomology. When the bundles of conformal blocks have rank one, this construction may be compared with the old integral formulas of the second and the third author. The proportionality coefficients are some Selberg type integrals which are computed. Finally, a geometric construction of the tensor products of vector representations of the Lie algebra $frakgl(m)$ is proposed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3155

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zbMATH Keywords

equivariant cohomologyKnizhnik-Zamolodchikov equationsSelberg integralsWess-Zumino-Witten modelKac-Moody Lie algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral theory; trace formulas (e.g., that of Selberg) (11F72) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) 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) Other algebro-geometric (co)homologies (e.g., intersection, equivariant, Lawson, Deligne (co)homologies) (14F43) Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91)

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