Topological sectors and a dichotomy in conformal field theory

DOI10.1007/S00220-004-1063-1MaRDI QIDQ852122zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roberto Longo, Feng Xu

Publication date 27 November 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0309366

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operator spaces and completely bounded maps (46L07) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: Let A be a local conformal net of factors on the circle with the split property. We provide a topological construction of soliton representations of the tensor product of n copies of A, that restrict to true representations of subnet inviant under cyclic permutations (cyclic orbifold). We prove a quantum index theorem for our sectors relating the Jones index to a topological degree. Then A is not completely rational iff the the cyclic orbifold has an irreducible representation with infinite index. This implies the following dichotomy: if all irreducible sectors of A have a conjugate sector then either A is completely rational or A has uncountably many different irreducible sectors. Thus A is rational iff A is completely rational. In particular, if the mu-index of A finite then A turns out to be strongly additive. By [KLM], if A is rational then the tensor category of representations of A is automatically modular, namely the braiding symmetry is non-degenerate. In interesting cases, we compute the fusion rules of the topological solitons and show that they determine all twisted sectors of the cyclic orbifold.

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