International Mathematics Research Notices Advance Access published online on September 17, 2009
International Mathematics Research Notices, doi:10.1093/imrn/rnp151
Strange Duality for Verlinde Spaces of Exceptional Groups at Level One
1 Matematik Bölümü, Bo
aziçi Üniversitesi, TR-34342, Bebek, Istanbul, Türkiye (Turkey)
2 Département de Mathématiques, Université de Montpellier II – Case Courrier 051, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Correspondence: Correspondence to be sent to: pauly{at}math.univ-montp2.fr
The moduli stack
of principal E8-bundles over a smooth projective curve X carries a natural divisor
. We study the pullback of the divisor
to the moduli stack
, where P is a semisimple and simply connected group such that its Lie algebra Lie (P) is a maximal conformal subalgebra of Lie (E8). We show that the divisor
induces "Strange Duality"-type isomorphisms between the Verlinde spaces at level one of the following pairs of groups (SL (5), SL (5)), (Spin (8), Spin (8)), (SL (3), E6), and (SL (2), E7).