Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1994-07-28
Commun.Math.Phys. 173 (1995) 357-378
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
28 pages, LATEX; a remark about other possible symmetry algebras and some references are added
Scientific paper
10.1007/BF02101238
It is shown how a chiral Wess-Zumino-Witten theory with globally defined vertex operators and a one-to-one correspondence between fields and states can be constructed. The Hilbert space of this theory is the direct sum of tensor products of representations of the chiral algebra and finite dimensional internal parameter spaces. On this enlarged space there exists a natural action of Drinfeld's quasi quantum group $A_{g,t}$, which commutes with the action of the chiral algebra and plays the r\^{o}le of an internal symmetry algebra. The $R$ matrix describes the braiding of the chiral vertex operators and the coassociator $\Phi$ gives rise to a modification of the duality property. For generic $q$ the quasi quantum group is isomorphic to the coassociative quantum group $U_{q}(g)$ and thus the duality property of the chiral theory can be restored. This construction has to be modified for the physically relevant case of integer level. The quantum group has to be replaced by the corresponding truncated quasi quantum group, which is not coassociative because of the truncation. This exhibits the truncated quantum group as the internal symmetry algebra of the chiral WZW model, which therefore has only a modified duality property. The case of $g=su(2)$ is worked out in detail.
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