Fusion Hierarchies of Critical A-D-E Lattice Models
Starts 13 May 2004 12:00
Ends 13 May 2004 20:00
Central European Time
ICTP
Main Building Room 239
Strada Costiera, 11
I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)
In 1987, Pasquier constructed the critical A-D-E lattice models whose
partition functions are found to be identical to the modular invariant
partition functions of unitary minimal models in conformal field theory.
In this talk, I will introduce the A-D-E models and show how to construct
new models from the existing ones by a process called fusion. The fusion
procedure is used to construct integrable boundary conditions and to
derive the functional equations which can be solved to give the spectra of the
transfer matrices.