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 $$ \mathfrak{sl}(2)/\mathfrak{u}(1) $$
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coset and sine-Liouville theory. In a previous work, a proof of the FZZ-duality was provided by applying the reduction method from $$ \mathfrak{sl}(2) $$
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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 $$ \mathfrak{sl}\left(N+1\right)/\left(\mathfrak{sl}(N)\times \mathfrak{u}(1)\right) $$
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and investigate the equivalence to a theory with an $$ \mathfrak{sl}\left(N+\left.1\right|N\right) $$
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structure. We derive the duality explicitly for N = 2, 3 by applying recent works on the reduction method extended for $$ \mathfrak{sl}(N) $$
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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].
Quantum exchange algebra and locality in Liouville theory