The W_N minimal model classification

DOI10.1007/S00220-012-1473-4zbMATH Open1260.81214arXiv1004.1205OpenAlexW3104154385MaRDI QIDQ695582FDOQ695582

Authors: Elaine Beltaos, Terry Gannon 

Publication date: 21 December 2012

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We first rigourously establish, for any N, that the toroidal modular invariant partition functions for the (not necessarily unitary) W_N(p,q) minimal models biject onto a well-defined subset of those of the SU(N)xSU(N) Wess-Zumino-Witten theories at level (p-N,q-N). This permits considerable simplifications to the proof of the Cappelli-Itzykson-Zuber classification of Virasoro minimal models. More important, we obtain from this the complete classification of all modular invariants for the W_3(p,q) minimal models. All should be realised by rational conformal field theories. Previously, only those for the unitary models, i.e. W_3(p,p+1), were classified. For all N our correspondence yields for free an extensive list of W_N(p,q) modular invariants. The W_3 modular invariants, like the Virasoro minimal models, all factorise into SU(3) modular invariants, but this fails in general for larger N. We also classify the SU(3)xSU(3) modular invariants, and find there a new infinite series of exceptionals.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.1205

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zbMATH Keywords

minimal models\(W_{3}(p, q)\) minimal modelsclassification of modular invariantstoroidal modular invariant partition functionsWess-Zumino-Witten theories

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)

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