scholarly journals Functional equations and separation of variables for exact g-function

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
João Caetano ◽  
Shota Komatsu
Keyword(s):  
Functional Equations ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Fredholm Determinant ◽  
Separation Of Variables ◽  
Topological String ◽  
Quantum Field Theories ◽  
Fredholm Determinants ◽  
Classic Result ◽  
Integrable Spin ◽  
Integrable Spin Chains

Abstract The g-function is a measure of degrees of freedom associated to a boundary of two-dimensional quantum field theories. In integrable theories, it can be computed exactly in a form of the Fredholm determinant, but it is often hard to evaluate numerically. In this paper, we derive functional equations — or equivalently integral equations of the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz (TBA) type — which directly compute the g-function in the simplest integrable theory; the sinh-Gordon theory at the self-dual point. The derivation is based on the classic result by Tracy and Widom on the relation between Fredholm determinants and TBA, which was used also in the context of topological string. We demonstrate the efficiency of our formulation through the numerical computation and compare the results in the UV limit with the Liouville CFT. As a side result, we present multiple integrals of Q-functions which we conjecture to describe a universal part of the g-function, and discuss its implication to integrable spin chains.

scholarly journals BPS Quivers of Five-Dimensional SCFTs, Topological Strings and q-Painlevé Equations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulio Bonelli ◽  
Fabrizio Del Monte ◽  
Alessandro Tanzini
Keyword(s):  
Topological String ◽  
Cluster Algebra ◽  
Painlevé Equations ◽  
Partition Functions ◽  
Quantum Field Theories ◽  
Particle Spectrum ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Painleve Equations ◽  
Rank One ◽  
Bilinear Equations

AbstractWe study the discrete flows generated by the symmetry group of the BPS quivers for Calabi–Yau geometries describing five-dimensional superconformal quantum field theories on a circle. These flows naturally describe the BPS particle spectrum of such theories and at the same time generate bilinear equations of q-difference type which, in the rank one case, are q-Painlevé equations. The solutions of these equations are shown to be given by grand canonical topological string partition functions which we identify with $$\tau $$ τ -functions of the cluster algebra associated to the quiver. We exemplify our construction in the case corresponding to five-dimensional SU(2) pure super Yang–Mills and $$N_f=2$$ N f = 2 on a circle.

scholarly journals Low-temperature thermodynamics of A2(2) and su(3)-invariant integrable spin chains

1993 ◽  
Vol 406 (3) ◽  
pp. 681-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Mezincescu ◽  
Rafael I. Nepomechie ◽  
P.K. Townsend ◽  
A.M. Tsvelik
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Spin Chains ◽  
Integrable Spin ◽  
Integrable Spin Chains

scholarly journals SUSY field theories in higher dimensions and integrable spin chains

1998 ◽  
Vol 518 (3) ◽  
pp. 689-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Gorsky ◽  
G. Sukov ◽  
A. Mironov
Keyword(s):  
Higher Dimensions ◽  
Spin Chains ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Integrable Spin ◽  
Integrable Spin Chains

scholarly journals QUANTUM FIELD THEORY ON CURVED BACKGROUNDS — A PRIMER

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (17) ◽  
pp. 1330023 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCO BENINI ◽  
CLAUDIO DAPPIAGGI ◽  
THOMAS-PAUL HACK
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Hilbert Space ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Algebraic Approach ◽  
Quantum Field Theories ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
System A ◽  
Step Procedure ◽  
Free Fields

Goal of this paper is to introduce the algebraic approach to quantum field theory on curved backgrounds. Based on a set of axioms, first written down by Haag and Kastler, this method consists of a two-step procedure. In the first one, it is assigned to a physical system a suitable algebra of observables, which is meant to encode all algebraic relations among observables, such as commutation relations. In the second step, one must select an algebraic state in order to recover the standard Hilbert space interpretation of a quantum system. As quantum field theories possess infinitely many degrees of freedom, many unitarily inequivalent Hilbert space representations exist and the power of such approach is the ability to treat them all in a coherent manner. We will discuss in detail the algebraic approach for free fields in order to give the reader all necessary information to deal with the recent literature, which focuses on the applications to specific problems, mostly in cosmology.

scholarly journals THERMODYNAMIC BETHE ANSATZ AND THREE-FOLD TRIANGULATIONS

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 4051-4064 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. GLIOZZI ◽  
R. TATEO
Keyword(s):  
Bethe Ansatz ◽  
Unknown Function ◽  
Functional Equations ◽  
Simple Solution ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Quantum Field Theories ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz ◽  
Ansatz Approach ◽  
General Explanation

In the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz approach to 2D integrable, ADE-related quantum field theories, one derives a set of algebraic functional equations (a Y system) which play a prominent role. This set of equations is mapped onto the problem of finding finite triangulations of certain 3D manifolds. This mapping allows us to find a general explanation of the periodicity of the Y system. For the AN related theories, and more generally for the various restrictions of the fractionally supersymmetric sine—Gordon models, we find an explicit, surprisingly simple solution of such functional equations in terms of a single unknown function of the rapidity. The recently found dilogarithm functional equations associated to the Y system simply express the invariance of the volume of a manifold for deformations of its triangulations.

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