scholarly journals Correlator correspondences for Gaiotto-Rapčák dualities and first order formulation of coset models

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Creutzig ◽  
Yasuaki Hikida

Abstract We derive correspondences of correlation functions among dual conformal field theories in two dimensions by developing a “first order formulation” of coset models. We examine several examples, and the most fundamental one may be a conjectural equivalence between a coset (SL(n)k ⊗SL(n)−1)/SL(n)k−1 and $$ \mathfrak{sl}(n) $$ sl n Toda field theory with generic level k. Among others, we also complete the derivation of higher rank FZZ-duality involving a coset SL(n + 1)k /(SL(n)k ⊗ U(1)), which could be done only for n = 2, 3 in our previous paper. One obstacle in the previous work was our poor understanding of a first order formulation of coset models. In this paper, we establish such a formulation using the BRST formalism. With our better understanding, we successfully derive correlator correspondences of dual models including the examples mentioned above. The dualities may be regarded as conformal field theory realizations of some of the Gaiotto-Rapčák dualities of corner vertex operator algebras.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Creutzig ◽  
Yasuaki Hikida

Abstract We examine strong/weak dualities in two dimensional conformal field theories by generalizing the Fateev-Zamolodchikov-Zamolodchikov (FZZ-)duality between Witten’s cigar model described by the $$ \mathfrak{sl}(2)/\mathfrak{u}(1) $$ sl 2 / u 1 coset and sine-Liouville theory. In a previous work, a proof of the FZZ-duality was provided by applying the reduction method from $$ \mathfrak{sl}(2) $$ sl 2 Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten model to Liouville field theory and the self-duality of Liouville field theory. In this paper, we work with the coset model of the type $$ \mathfrak{sl}\left(N+1\right)/\left(\mathfrak{sl}(N)\times \mathfrak{u}(1)\right) $$ sl N + 1 / sl N × u 1 and investigate the equivalence to a theory with an $$ \mathfrak{sl}\left(N+\left.1\right|N\right) $$ sl N + 1 N structure. We derive the duality explicitly for N = 2, 3 by applying recent works on the reduction method extended for $$ \mathfrak{sl}(N) $$ sl N and the self-duality of Toda field theory. Our results can be regarded as a conformal field theoretic derivation of the duality of the Gaiotto-Rapčák corner vertex operator algebras Y0,N,N+1[ψ] and YN,0,N+1[ψ−1].


1990 ◽  
Vol 05 (12) ◽  
pp. 2343-2358 ◽  
Author(s):  
KEKE LI

A method of constructing critical (fixed point) Landau-Ginzburg action from operator algebra is applied to several classes of conformal field theories, including lines of c = 1 models and the coset models based on SU(2) current algebra. For the c = 1 models, the Landau-Ginzberg potential is argued to be physically consistent, and it resembles a modality-one singularity with modal deformation representing exactly the marginal deformation. The potentials for the coset models manifestly possess correct discrete symmetries.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Creutzig ◽  
Yasuaki Hikida ◽  
Devon Stockal

Abstract We examine a strong/weak duality between a Heisenberg coset of a theory with $$ \mathfrak{sl} $$ sl n subregular $$ \mathcal{W} $$ W -algebra symmetry and a theory with a $$ \mathfrak{sl} $$ sl n|1-structure. In a previous work, two of the current authors provided a path integral derivation of correlator correspondences for a series of generalized Fateev-Zamolodchikov-Zamolodchikov (FZZ-)duality. In this paper, we derive correlator correspondences in a similar way but for a different series of generalized duality. This work is a part of the project to realize the duality of corner vertex operator algebras proposed by Gaiotto and Rapčák and partly proven by Linshaw and one of us in terms of two dimensional conformal field theory. We also examine another type of duality involving an additional pair of fermions, which is a natural generalization of the fermionic FZZ-duality. The generalization should be important since a principal $$ \mathcal{W} $$ W -superalgebra appears as its symmetry and the properties of the superalgebra are less understood than bosonic counterparts.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (759) ◽  
pp. 61-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jethro van Ekeren ◽  
Sven Möller ◽  
Nils R. Scheithauer

AbstractWe develop an orbifold theory for finite, cyclic groups acting on holomorphic vertex operator algebras. Then we show that Schellekens’ classification of {V_{1}}-structures of meromorphic conformal field theories of central charge 24 is a theorem on vertex operator algebras. Finally, we use these results to construct some new holomorphic vertex operator algebras of central charge 24 as lattice orbifolds.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zohar Komargodski ◽  
Márk Mezei ◽  
Sridip Pal ◽  
Avia Raviv-Moshe

Abstract Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) have rich dynamics in heavy states. We describe the constraints due to spontaneously broken boost and dilatation symmetries in such states. The spontaneously broken boost symmetries require the existence of new low-lying primaries whose scaling dimension gap, we argue, scales as O(1). We demonstrate these ideas in various states, including fluid, superfluid, mean field theory, and Fermi surface states. We end with some remarks about the large charge limit in 2d and discuss a theory of a single compact boson with an arbitrary conformal anomaly.


2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (32) ◽  
pp. 6197-6222 ◽  
Author(s):  
YU NAKAYAMA

We study scale invariant but not necessarily conformal invariant deformations of nonrelativistic conformal field theories from the dual gravity viewpoint. We present the corresponding metric that solves the Einstein equation coupled with a massive vector field. We find that, within the class of metric we study, when we assume the Galilean invariance, the scale invariant deformation always preserves the nonrelativistic conformal invariance. We discuss applications to scaling regime of Reggeon field theory and nonlinear quantum finance. These theories possess scale invariance but may or may not break the conformal invariance, depending on the underlying symmetry assumptions.


2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (25) ◽  
pp. 4497-4591 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL A. I. FLOHR

These are notes of my lectures held at the first School & Workshop on Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory and its Applications, September 2001 in Tehran, Iran. These notes cover only selected parts of the by now quite extensive knowledge on logarithmic conformal field theories. In particular, I discuss the proper generalization of null vectors towards the logarithmic case, and how these can be used to compute correlation functions. My other main topic is modular invariance, where I discuss the problem of the generalization of characters in the case of indecomposable representations, a proposal for a Verlinde formula for fusion rules and identities relating the partition functions of logarithmic conformal field theories to such of well known ordinary conformal field theories. The two main topics are complemented by some remarks on ghost systems, the Haldane-Rezayi fractional quantum Hall state, and the relation of these two to the logarithmic c=-2 theory.


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