The Heisenberg group and conformal field theory

Authors
Publication date 2012
Journal The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics
Volume | Issue number 63 | 2
Pages (from-to) 423-465
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI)
Abstract A mathematical construction of the conformal field theory (CFT) associated to a compact torus, also called the ‘non-linear Sigma-model’ or ‘lattice-CFT’, is given. Underlying this approach to CFT is a unitary modular functor, the construction of which follows from a ‘quantization commutes with reduction’-type of theorem for unitary quantizations of the moduli spaces of holomorphic torus-bundles and actions of loop groups. This theorem in turn is a consequence of general constructions in the category of affine symplectic manifolds and their associated generalized Heisenberg groups.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1093/qmath/haq052
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