Fermionic expressions for minimal model Virasoro characters
Abstract
Fermionic expressions for all minimal model Virasoro characters are stated and proved. Each such expression is a sum of terms of fundamental fermionic form type. In most cases, all these terms are written down using certain trees which are constructed for and from the Takahashi lengths and truncated Takahashi lengths associated with the continued fraction of . In the remaining cases, in addition to such terms, the fermionic expression for contains a different character , and is thus recursive in nature. Bosonic-fermionic -series identities for all characters result from equating these fermionic expressions with known bosonic expressions. In the cases for which , , or , Rogers-Ramanujan type identities result from equating these fermionic expressions with known product expressions for . The fermionic expressions are proved by first obtaining fermionic expressions for the generating functions of length Forrester-Baxter paths, using various combinatorial transforms. In the limit, the fermionic expressions for emerge after mapping between the trees that are constructed for and from the Takahashi and truncated Takahashi lengths respectively.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0212154,
title = {Fermionic expressions for minimal model Virasoro characters},
author = {Trevor A. Welsh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0212154},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
153 pages, includes eps figures. v2: exceptional cases clarified, (1.45/6) corrected for d=1, Section 7.5 rewritten, reference added. v3: minor typos and clarifications. To appear in Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society