Fusion Rules for Affine Kac-Moody Algebras

Weyl groups are ubiquitous, and efficient algorithms for them -- especially for the exceptional algebras -- are clearly desirable. In this paper we provide several of these, addressing practical concerns arising naturally for instance in computational aspects of the study of affine algebras or Wess-Zumino-Witten conformal field theories. We also discuss the efficiency and numerical accuracy of these algorithms.

This is the first of two articles devoted to a comprehensive exposition of the generating-function method for computing fusion rules in affine Lie algebras. The present paper is entirely devoted to the study of the tensor-product (infinite-level) limit of fusions rules. We consider thus in detail the problem of constructing tensor-product generating functions in finite Lie algebras. From the beginning, the problem is recast in terms of the concept of a model, which is an alge...

Let g be a semi-simple Lie algebra, and let g^ be the corresponding affine Kac-Moody algebra. Consider the category of g^-modules at the critical level, on which the action of the Iwahori subalgebra integrates to algebraic action of the Iwahori subgroup I. We study the action on this category of the convolution functors with the "central" sheaves on the affine flag scheme G((t))/I. We show that each object of our category is an "eigen-module" with respect to these functors. I...

We give a new proof of a formula for the fusion rules for type $A_2$ due to B\'egin, Mathieu, and Walton. Our approach is to symbolically evaluate the Kac-Walton algorithm.

We develop a new method for obtaining branching rules for affine Kac-Moody Lie algebras at negative integer levels. This method uses fusion rules for vertex operator algebras of affine type. We prove that an infinite family of ordinary modules for affine vertex algebra of type A investigated in Adamovi\'c and O. Per\v{s}e (2008) is closed under fusion. Then we apply these fusion rules on explicit bosonic realization of level -1 modules for the affine Lie algebra of type $A_{\...

The goal of the present paper is to obtain new free field realizations of affine Kac-Moody algebras motivated by geometric representation theory for generalized flag manifolds of finite-dimensional semisimple Lie groups. We provide an explicit construction of a large class of irreducible modules associated with certain parabolic subalgebras covering all known special cases.

In this article, we discuss the relation between Kac-Moody algebras, the monstrous moonshine, Jacobi forms and infinite products. We also review Borcherds' solution of the Moonshine Conjecture and his work of constructing automorphic forms on the orthogonal group which can be written as infinite products.

These notes arose from three lectures on fusion system I gave at the University of Valencia in February 2023. We first consider fusion phenomena in classical group theory. Then we develop the abstract theory of fusion systems. Finally applications to representation theory are given. We will not consider applications in topology.

This is the second of two articles devoted to an exposition of the generating-function method for computing fusion rules in affine Lie algebras. The present paper focuses on fusion rules, using the machinery developed for tensor products in the companion article. Although the Kac-Walton algorithm provides a method for constructing a fusion generating function from the corresponding tensor-product generating function, we describe a more powerful approach which starts by first ...

To each category C of modules of finite length over a complex simple Lie algebra g, closed under tensoring with finite dimensional modules, we associate and study a category Aff(C)_\kappa of smooth modules (in the sense of Kazhdan and Lusztig [KL1]) of finite length over the corresponding affine Kac-Moody algebra in the case of central charge less than the critical level. Equivalent characterizations of these categories are obtained in the spirit of the works of Kazhdan-Luszt...