Affine SU(2) fusion rules from gerbe 2-isomorphisms

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2011.03.008zbMATH Open1275.53030arXiv0909.0283OpenAlexW2014145309MaRDI QIDQ550299FDOQ550299

Rafał R. Suszek, Ingo Runkel

Publication date: 8 July 2011

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a geometric description of the fusion rules of the affine Lie algebra su(2)_k at a positive integer level k in terms of the k-th power of the basic gerbe over the Lie group SU(2). The gerbe can be trivialised over conjugacy classes corresponding to dominant weights of su(2)_k via a 1-isomorphism. The fusion-rule coefficients are related to the existence of a 2-isomorphism between pullbacks of these 1-isomorphisms to a submanifold of SU(2) x SU(2) determined by the corresponding three conjugacy classes. This construction is motivated by its application in the description of junctions of maximally symmetric defect lines in the Wess-Zumino-Witten model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0283

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zbMATH Keywords

gerbesLie groupsaffine fusion rules

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Fibered categories (18D30)

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