WZW models of general simple groups

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00587-0MaRDI QIDQ1906814zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthias R. Gaberdiel

Publication date 23 January 1996

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9508105

zbMATH Keywords

modular invariancequantum theoriesmonodromy invariancenoncontractible loopsSugawara expression transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) 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)

Abstract: It is shown that a WZW model corresponding to a general simple group possesses in general different quantisations which are parametrised by $Hom(p{i}_1(G),Hom(p{i}_1(G),U(1)))$. The quantum theories are generically neither monodromy nor modular invariant, but all the modular invariant theories of Felder et.al. are contained among them. A formula for the transformation of the Sugawara expression for $L_0$ under conjugation with respect to non-contractible loops in $LG$ is derived. This formula is then used to analyse the monodromy properties of the various quantisations. It turns out that for $$, with $N$ even, there are $2$ monodromy invariant theories, one of which is modular invariant, and for $$ there are $8$ monodromy invariant theories, two of which are modular invariant. A few specific examples are worked out in detail to illustrate the results.

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