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New Duality Transformations in Orbifold Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We find new duality transformations which allow us to construct the stress tensors of all the twisted sectors of any orbifold A(H)/H, where A(H) is the set of all current-algebraic conformal field theories with a finite symmetry group H \subset Aut(g). The permutation orbifolds with H = Z_\lambda and H = S_3 are worked out in full as illustrations but the general formalism includes both simple and semisimple g. The motivation for this development is the recently-discovered orbifold Virasoro master equation, whose solutions are identified by the duality transformations as sectors of the permutation orbifolds A(D_\lambda)/Z_\lambda.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9908187,
  title  = {New Duality Transformations in Orbifold Theory},
  author = {J. de Boer and J. Evslin and M. B. Halpern and J. E. Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9908187},
  year   = {2008}
}

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48 pages,typos corrected