Crossed modular categories and the Verlinde formula for twisted conformal blocks

DOI10.4310/CJM.2023.V11.N1.A2MaRDI QIDQ6098048zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tanmay Deshpande, Swarnava Mukhopadhyay

Publication date 9 June 2023

Published in Cambridge Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10799

zbMATH Keywords

twisted affine Lie algebrastwisted Verlinde formulatwisted conformal blockscrossed modular categoriescrossed modular functors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Moduli and deformations for ordinary differential equations (e.g., Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation) (32G34) Fusion categories, modular tensor categories, modular functors (18M20)

Abstract: In this paper, we give a Verlinde formula for computing the ranks of the bundles of twisted conformal blocks associated with a simple Lie algebra equipped with an action of a finite group $Gamma$ and a positive integral level $ell$ under the assumption that "$Gamma$ preserves a Borel". As a motivation for this Verlinde formula, we prove a categorical Verlinde formula which computes the fusion coefficients for any $Gamma$-crossed modular fusion category as defined by Turaev. To relate these two versions of the Verlinde formula, we formulate the notion of a $Gamma$-crossed modular functor and show that it is very closely related to the notion of a $Gamma$-crossed modular fusion category. We compute the Atiyah algebra and prove (with same assumptions) that the bundles of $Gamma$-twisted conformal blocks associated with a twisted affine Lie algebra define a $Gamma$-crossed modular functor. Along the way, we prove equivalence between a $Gamma$-crossed modular functor and its topological analogue. We then apply these results to derive the Verlinde formula for twisted conformal blocks. We also explicitly describe the crossed S-matrices that appear in the Verlinde formula for twisted conformal blocks.

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