Path representation of su(2)_k states. II: Operator construction of the fermionic character and spin-12-RSOS factorization

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.01.027zbMATH Open1208.81179arXiv1012.4722OpenAlexW1994143418MaRDI QIDQ632436FDOQ632436

Authors: J. Lamy-Poirier, Pierre Mathieu 

Publication date: 24 March 2011

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

Abstract: This is the second of two articles (independent of each other) devoted to the analysis of the path description of the states in su(2)_k WZW models. Here we present a constructive derivation of the fermionic character at level k based on these paths. The starting point is the expression of a path in terms of a sequence of nonlocal (formal) operators acting on the vacuum ground-state path. Within this framework, the key step is the construction of the level-k operator sequences out of those at level-1 by the action of a new type of operators. These actions of operators on operators turn out to have a path interpretation: these paths are precisely the finitized RSOS paths related to the unitary minimal models M(k+1,k+2). We thus unravel -- at the level of the path representation of the states --, a direct factorization into a k=1 spinon part times a RSOS factor. It is also pointed out that since there are two fermionic forms describing these finite RSOS paths, the resulting fermionic su(2)_k characters arise in two versions. Finally, the relation between the present construction and the Nagoya spectral decomposition of the path space is sketched.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.4722

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zbMATH Keywords

pathsintegrable modulesaffine \(su(2)\) algebrafermionic characters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Exactly and quasi-solvable systems arising in quantum theory (81U15)

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