Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 15 (2019), 027, 10 pages      arXiv:1810.00145      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2019.027
Contribution to the Special Issue on Moonshine and String Theory

A Short Guide to Orbifold Deconstruction

Peter Bantay
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Eötvös Lóránd University, H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter s. 1/A, Hungary

Received September 28, 2018, in final form March 27, 2019; Published online April 09, 2019

Abstract
We study the problem of orbifold deconstruction, i.e., the process of recognizing, using only readily available information, whether a given conformal model can be realized as an orbifold, and the identification of the twist group and the original conformal model.

Key words: conformal symmetry; orbifold models.

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