Of McKay correspondence, nonlinear sigma-model and conformal field theory

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2000.V4.N4.A1MaRDI QIDQ700543zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yang-Hui He, Jun S. Song

Publication date 22 October 2002

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9903056

zbMATH Keywords

string theoryGorenstein singularitiesLandau-Ginzburg orbifoldsmodular invariants of WZW modelsubiquitous A-D-E classification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33)

Abstract: The ubiquitous ADE classification has induced many proposals of often mysterious correspondences both in mathematics and physics. The mathematics side includes quiver theory and the McKay Correspondence which relates finite group representation theory to Lie algebras as well as crepant resolutions of Gorenstein singularities. On the physics side, we have the graph-theoretic classification of the modular invariants of WZW models, as well as the relation between the string theory nonlinear $sigma$-models and Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds. We here propose a unification scheme which naturally incorporates all these correspondences of the ADE type in two complex dimensions. An intricate web of inter-relations is constructed, providing a possible guideline to establish new directions of research or alternate pathways to the standing problems in higher dimensions.

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