Heterotic Modular Invariants and Level--Rank Duality

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1998-04-06

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9804040v1

Nucl.Phys. B536 (1998) 553-574

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

26 pages, harvmac

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00385-X

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 found; the complete list of a specified subclass of these is obtained. We also prove (under a mild hypothesis) an old conjecture concerning exceptional $A_{r,k}$ invariants and level-rank duality.

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