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Title: | Modular transformations of admissible N = 2 and Affine sl(2|1;C) characters | ||||||
Author: | Sadeghi, Jafar |
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0000 0001 3544 4830
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Awarding Body: | Durham University | ||||||
Current Institution: | Durham University | ||||||
Date of Award: | 2002 | ||||||
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This thesis is a study of the affine super-algebra sl(2|l; C) and N = 2 superconformal algebra at fractional levels. In the first chapter we review background material on Conformal Field Theory, and how it appears in the context of string theory and the Wess - Zumino – Novikov - Witten model. We also discuss integrable and admissible representations of infinite dimensional algebras and their modular transformations. In Chapter 2 we elaborate some more on modular transformations and we derive them in the case of non - unitary minimal N = 2 characters. Some very explicit formulas are presented. In Chapter 3 we discuss character formulas for the affine sl(2|l;C) algebra and some of their general properties are given, in particular their behaviour under spectral flow. In Chapter 4 we turn to the study of sumrules for sl(2|l;C) at level k. These involve the product of sl(2) characters at level k, k', and 1 with {k + l){k' + !) = 1. We consider k + 1 = for = 1, p e Z*, u eN and show that the sumruleswe have obtained agree with the literature when the parameter p is restricted to p = 1. We use the integral form of the sumrules to study the modular properties of sl(2|l) characters at fractional level in the last section of Chapter 4.The advisor for this work has been Dr. Anne Taormina.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Not available | ||||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.394779 | DOI: | Not available | ||||
Keywords: | Theoretical physics | ||||||
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