The action of outer automorphisms on bundles of chiral blocks

Abstract

On the bundles of WZW chiral blocks over the moduli space of a punctured rational curve we construct isomorphisms that implement the action of outer automorphisms of the underlying affine Lie algebra. These bundle-isomorphisms respect the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov connection and have finite order. When all primary fields are fixed points, the isomorphisms are endomorphisms; in this case, the bundle of chiral blocks is typically a reducible vector bundle. A conjecture for the trace of such endomorphisms is presented; the proposed relation generalizes the Verlinde formula. Our results have applications to conformal field theories based on non-simply connected groups and to the classification of boundary conditions in such theories.

arXiv comment46 pages, LaTeX2e. Final version (Commun.Math.Phys., in press). We have implemented the fact that the group of automorphisms in general acts only projectively on the chiral blocks and corrected some typos

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