Heterotic modular invariants and level-rank duality
Abstract
New heterotic modular invariants are found using the level-rank duality of affine Kac-Moody algebras. They provide strong evidence for the consistency of an infinite list of heterotic Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) conformal field theories. We call the basic construction the dual-flip, since it flips chirality (exchanges left and right movers) and takes the level-rank dual. We compare the dual-flip to the method of conformal subalgebras, another way of constructing heterotic invariants. To do so, new level-one heterotic invariants are first bound; the complete list of a specified subclass of these is obtained. We also prove (under a mild hypothesis) an old conjecture concerning exceptional Ar, k invariants and level-rank duality.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Physics B
- Pub Date:
- December 1998
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00385-X
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/9804040
- Bibcode:
- 1998NuPhB.536..553G
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 26 pages, harvmac