Higher string functions, higher-level Appell functions, and the logarithmic sl(2)_k/u(1) CFT model

DOI10.1007/S00220-008-0677-0zbMATH Open1170.81039arXiv0710.2028OpenAlexW3122878044MaRDI QIDQ842409FDOQ842409

Authors: A. M. Semikhatov 

Publication date: 25 September 2009

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

Abstract: We generalize the string functions C_{n,r}(tau) associated with the coset ^sl(2)_k/u(1) to higher string functions A_{n,r}(tau) and B_{n,r}(tau) associated with the coset W(k)/u(1) of the W-algebra of the logarithmically extended ^sl(2)_k conformal field model with positive integer k. The higher string functions occur in decomposing W(k) characters with respect to level-k theta and Appell functions and their derivatives (the characters are neither quasiperiodic nor holomorphic, and therefore cannot decompose with respect to only theta-functions). The decomposition coefficients, to be considered ``logarithmic parafermionic characters, are given by A_{n,r}(tau), B_{n,r}(tau), C_{n,r}(tau), and by the triplet mathscr{W}(p)-algebra characters of the (p=k+2,1) logarithmic model. We study the properties of A_{n,r} and B_{n,r}, which nontrivially generalize those of the classic string functions C_{n,r}, and evaluate the modular group representation generated from A_{n,r}(tau) and B_{n,r}(tau); its structure inherits some features of modular transformations of the higher-level Appell functions and the associated transcendental function Phi.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2028

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Applications of hypergeometric functions (33C90)

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