Fusion multiplicities as polytope volumes: N-point and higher-genus su(2) fusion

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00543-0MaRDI QIDQ5951469zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jørgen Rasmussen, Mark A. Walton

Publication date 6 January 2002

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0104240

zbMATH Keywords

Berenstein-Zelevinsky diagramsvirtual couplingsWess-Zumino-Witten conformal field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: We present the first polytope volume formulas for the multiplicities of affine fusion, the fusion in Wess-Zumino-Witten conformal field theories, for example. Thus, we characterise fusion multiplicities as discretised volumes of certain convex polytopes, and write them explicitly as multiple sums measuring those volumes. We focus on su(2), but discuss higher-point (N>3) and higher-genus fusion in a general way. The method follows that of our previous work on tensor product multiplicities, and so is based on the concepts of generalised Berenstein-Zelevinsky diagrams, and virtual couplings. As a by-product, we also determine necessary and sufficient conditions for non-vanishing higher-point fusion multiplicities. In the limit of large level, these inequalities reduce to very simple non-vanishing conditions for the corresponding tensor product multiplicities. Finally, we find the minimum level at which the higher-point fusion and tensor product multiplicities coincide.

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