2013

Coset conformal field theory and instanton counting on C^2/Z_p

Alfimov, M. N., Belavin, A. A., Tarnopolsky, G. M.

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We study conformal field theory with the symmetry algebra $\mathcal{A}(2,p)=\hat{\mathfrak{gl}}(n)_{2}/\hat{\mathfrak{gl}}(n-p)_2$.

  • In order to support the conjecture that this algebra acts on the moduli space of instantons on $\mathbb{C}^{2}/\mathbb{Z}_{p}$, we calculate the characters of its representations and check their coincidence with the generating functions of the fixed points of the moduli space of instantons.
  • We show that the algebra $\mathcal{A}(2,p)$ can be realized in two ways.
  • The first realization is connected with the cross-product of $p$ Virasoro and $p$ Heisenberg algebras: $\mathcal{H}^{p}\times \textrm{Vir}^{p}$.

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