U(1)^m modular invariants, N=2 minimal models, and the quantum Hall effect

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00032-1MaRDI QIDQ678290zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Terry Gannon

Publication date 16 April 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9608063

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryeffective field theoriesaffine algebrasdual Grassmannianselfdual lattices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70)

Abstract: The problem of finding all possible effective field theories for the quantum Hall effect is closely related to the problem of classifying all possible modular invariant partition functions for the algebra $u(1{)}^m$, as was argued recently by Cappelli and Zemba. This latter problem is also a natural one from the perspective of conformal field theory. In this paper we completely solve this problem, expressing the answer in terms of self-dual lattices, or equivalently, rational points on the dual Grassmannian $G_{m,m}(R{)}^{\ast }$. We also find all modular invariant partition functions for $su(2)oplusu(1{)}^m$, from which we obtain the classification of all N=2 superconformal minimal models. The `A-D-E classification' of these, though often quoted in the literature, turns out to be a very coarse-grained one: e.g. associated with the names $E_6,E_7,E_8$, respectively, are precisely 20,30,24 different partition functions. As a by-product of our analysis, we find that the list of modular invariants for su(2) lengthens surprisingly little when commutation with T -- i.e. invariance under $aumapstoau+1$ -- is ignored: the other conditions are far more essential.

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