Spinon Bases, Yangian Symmetry and Fermionic Representations of Virasoro Characters in Conformal Field Theory

Abstract

We study the description of the $SU(2)$, level $k=1$, Wess-Zumino-Witten conformal field theory in terms of the modes of the spin-1/2 affine primary field ${\varphi }^{\alpha }$. These are shown to satisfy generalized `canonical commutation relations', which we use to construct a basis of Hilbert space in terms of representations of the Yangian $Y(s{l}_2)$. Using this description, we explicitly derive so-called `fermionic representations' of the Virasoro characters, which were first conjectured by Kedem et al.~\cite{kedem}. We point out that similar results are expected for a wide class of rational conformal field theories.

15 pages, LaTeX, USC-94/4, PUPT-1469

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