Representations of affine Lie algebras, parabolic differential equations, and Lame functions

Details Representations of affine Lie algebras, parabolic differential equations, and Lame functions Representations of affine Lie algebras, parabolic differential equations, and Lame functions

1993-10-14

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9310083v2

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

30 pages, no figures

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We consider correlation functions for the Wess-Zumino-Witten model on the torus with the insertion of a Cartan element; mathematically this means that we consider the function of the form $F=\Tr (\Phi_1 (z_1)\ldots \Phi_n (z_n)q^{-\d}e^{h})$ where $\Phi_i$ are intertwiners between Verma modules and evaluation modules over an affine Lie algebra $\ghat$, $\d$ is the grading operator in a Verma module and $h$ is in the Cartan subalgebra of $\g$. We derive a system of differential equations satisfied by such a function. In particular, the calculation of $q\frac{\d} {\d q} F$ yields a parabolic second order PDE closely related to the heat equation on the compact Lie group corresponding to $\g$. We consider in detail the case $n=1$, $\g = \sltwo$. In this case we get the following differential equation ($q=e^{\pi \i \tau}$): $ \left( -2\pi\i (K+2)\frac{\d}{\d\tau} +\frac{\d^2}{\d x^2}\right) F = (m(m+1)\wp(x+\frac{\tau}{2}) +c)F$, which for $K=-2$ (critical level) becomes Lam\'e equation. For the case $m\in\Z$ we derive integral formulas for $F$ and find their asymptotics as $K\to -2$, thus recovering classical Lam\'e functions.

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