PRESENTATIONS OF WESS–ZUMINO–WITTEN FUSION RINGS

DOI10.1142/S0129055X06002620zbMATH Open1095.81054arXivhep-th/0602057OpenAlexW3124479350MaRDI QIDQ5484711FDOQ5484711

Authors: P. Bouwknegt, David Ridout 

Publication date: 21 August 2006

Published in: Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The fusion rings of Wess-Zumino-Witten models are re-examined. Attention is drawn to the difference between fusion rings over Z (which are often of greater importance in applications) and fusion algebras over C. Complete proofs are given characterising the fusion algebras (over C) of the SU(r+1) and Sp(2r) models in terms of the fusion potentials, and it is shown that the analagous potentials cannot describe the fusion algebras of the other models. This explains why no other representation-theoretic fusion potentials have been found. Instead, explicit generators are then constructed for general WZW fusion rings (over Z). The Jacobi-Trudy identity and its Sp(2r) analogue are used to derive the known fusion potentials. This formalism is then extended to the WZW models over the spin groups of odd rank, and explicit presentations of the corresponding fusion rings are given. The analogues of the Jacobi-Trudy identity for the spinor representations (for all ranks) are derived for this purpose, and may be of independent interest.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0602057

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theorycharacterfusion ringD-braneJacobi--Trudy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomial rings and ideals; rings of integer-valued polynomials (13F20) Gröbner bases; other bases for ideals and modules (e.g., Janet and border bases) (13P10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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