Graphs and reflection groups
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Graphs and reflection groups
zbMATH Open document ID: 0942.20018
DOI: 10.1007/BF02102590
published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics
publication date: 2000-05-29T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9507057
review text: It is shown that graphs that generalize the ADE Dynkin diagrams and have appeared in various contexts of two-dimensional field theory may be regarded in a natural way as encoding the geometry of a root system. After recalling what are the conditions satisfied by these graphs, the author defines a bilinear form on a root system in terms of the adjacency matrices of these graphs and undertakes the study of the group generated by the reflections in the hyperplanes orthogonal to these roots. Some ``non-integrally laced'' graphs are shown to be associated with subgroups of these reflection groups. The empirical relevance of these graphs in the classification of conformal field theories or in the construction of integrable lattice models is recalled, and the connections with recent developments in the context of \(\mathcal N=2\) supersymmetric theories and topological field theories are discussed.
reviewed by: Chen Chengdong
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20F55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05C25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 17B81
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81T40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81T45
zbMATH DE Number: 934343
zbMATH Keywords: ADE Dynkin diagrams
zbMATH Keywords: two-dimensional field theories
zbMATH Keywords: root systems
zbMATH Keywords: graphs
zbMATH Keywords: reflection groups
zbMATH Keywords: conformal field theories
zbMATH Keywords: topological field theories
author: Jean-Bernard Zuber
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
arXiv ID: hep-th/9507057
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