Quasi-particles in conformal field theoryThis paper was presented at the Theory CANADA 4 conference, held at the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques at the Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada on 4–7 June 2008.

2009 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-211
Author(s):  
P. Mathieu
Keyword(s):  
Virasoro Algebra ◽  
Positive Definite ◽  
Exclusion Principle ◽  
Theoretical Interpretation ◽  
Minimal Models ◽  
Quasi Particle ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Irreducible Modules ◽  
Alternating Sums ◽  
State Content

After recalling some basing features of conformal field theory, we present an elementary introduction to the description of the states in the irreducible modules of the minimal models. The characters, which encode the state content of each module, are easily constructed from the representation theory of the Virasoro algebra and they take the form of infinite alternating sums. On the other hand, the relation between the minimal models and particular statistical models has led to the discovery of alternative expressions for the characters, which are positive definite. These entail a (yet to be fully worked out) quasi-particle description of the space of states, via a filling process with restrictions akin to the exclusion principle. The simplest class of positive characters, pertaining to the ℳ(2,p) models, is presented, and its underlying combinatorial aspects are spelled out. A natural conformal field theoretical interpretation of its quasi-particles is presented.

EXACT SOLUTIONS OF CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY IN TWO DIMENSIONS AND CRITICAL PHENOMENA

1989 ◽  
Vol 01 (02n03) ◽  
pp. 197-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. B. ZAMOLODCHIKOV
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Conformal Field Theory ◽  
Critical Phenomena ◽  
Virasoro Algebra ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Minimal Models ◽  
Infinite Dimensional ◽  
Superconformal Field Theory ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Modern Development

Modern development of conformal field theory in two dimensions and its applications to critical phenomena are briefly reviewed. The specific properties of the renormalization group in two dimensions and the fundamentals of 2-dimensional conformal field theory are presented. The properties of degenerate representations of the Virasoro algebra and other infinite dimensional algebras, "minimal" models of conformal and superconformal field theory, "parafermionic" and other symmetries are discussed. We also investigate a perturbation theory around conformal solutions of field theory.

A Review of Conformal Field Theory in 2D

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1079-1105
Author(s):  
Rahul Nigam
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Conformal Field Theory ◽  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Critical Behavior ◽  
Verma Module ◽  
Virasoro Algebra ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Insight Into

In this review we study the elementary structure of Conformal Field Theory in which is a recipe for further studies of critical behavior of various systems in statistical mechanics and quantum field theory. We briefly review CFT in dimensions which plays a prominent role for example in the well-known duality AdS/CFT in string theory where the CFT lives on the AdS boundary. We also describe the mapping of the theory from the cylinder to a complex plane which will help us gain an insight into the process of radial quantization and radial ordering. Finally we will develop the representation of the Virasoro algebra which is the well-known "Verma module".  

scholarly journals Parafermionization, bosonization, and critical parafermionic theories

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Yao ◽  
Akira Furusaki
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Conformal Field Theory ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Lattice Models ◽  
Partition Functions ◽  
Minimal Models ◽  
Fermionic Model ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Wigner Transformation

AbstractWe formulate a ℤk-parafermionization/bosonization scheme for one-dimensional lattice models and field theories on a torus, starting from a generalized Jordan-Wigner transformation on a lattice, which extends the Majorana-Ising duality atk= 2. The ℤk-parafermionization enables us to investigate the critical theories of parafermionic chains whose fundamental degrees of freedom are parafermionic, and we find that their criticality cannot be described by any existing conformal field theory. The modular transformations of these parafermionic low-energy critical theories as general consistency conditions are found to be unconventional in that their partition functions on a torus transform differently from any conformal field theory whenk >2. Explicit forms of partition functions are obtained by the developed parafermionization for a large class of critical ℤk-parafermionic chains, whose operator contents are intrinsically distinct from any bosonic or fermionic model in terms of conformal spins and statistics. We also use the parafermionization to exhaust all the ℤk-parafermionic minimal models, complementing earlier works on fermionic cases.

scholarly journals Defects and perturbation

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico M. Brehm
Keyword(s):  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Topological Defects ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Minimal Models ◽  
Conformal Field

Abstract We investigate perturbatively tractable deformations of topological defects in two-dimensional conformal field theories. We perturbatively compute the change in the g-factor, the reflectivity, and the entanglement entropy of the conformal defect at the end of these short RG flows. We also give instances of such flows in the diagonal Virasoro and Super-Virasoro Minimal Models.

THE ANNIHILATING IDEALS OF MINIMAL MODELS

1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (supp01a) ◽  
pp. 217-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
BORIS L. FEIGIN ◽  
TOMOKI NAKANISHI ◽  
HIROSI OOGURI
Keyword(s):  
Central Charge ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Minimal Models ◽  
Finite Models ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Intimate Relation ◽  
Chiral Algebras

We describe several aspects of the annihilating ideals and reduced chiral algebras of conformal field theories, especially, minimal models of Wn algebras. The structure of the annihilating ideal and a vanishing condition is given. Using the annihilating ideal, the structure of quasi-finite models of the Virasoro (2,q) minimal models are studied, and their intimate relation to the Gordon identities are discussed. We also show the examples in which the reduced algebras of Wn and Wℓ algebras at the same central charge are isomorphic to each other.

scholarly journals On 2d CFTs that interpolate between minimal models

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvain Ribault
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Functions ◽  
Central Charge ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Minimal Models ◽  
Conformal Blocks ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Exactly Solvable ◽  
Structure Constants

We investigate exactly solvable two-dimensional conformal field theories that exist at generic values of the central charge, and that interpolate between A-series or D-series minimal models. When the central charge becomes rational, correlation functions of these CFTs may tend to correlation functions of minimal models, or diverge, or have finite limits which can be logarithmic. These results are based on analytic relations between four-point structure constants and residues of conformal blocks.

scholarly journals A NEAR HORIZON CFT DUAL FOR KERR–NEWMAN AdS

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (18) ◽  
pp. 3077-3090 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRADLY K. BUTTON ◽  
LEO RODRIGUEZ ◽  
CATHERINE A. WHITING ◽  
TUNA YILDIRIM
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Energy Momentum Tensor ◽  
Central Charge ◽  
Virasoro Algebra ◽  
Momentum Tensor ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
S Wave ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Asymptotic Symmetries

We show that the near horizon regime of a Kerr–Newman AdS (KNAdS) black hole, given by its two-dimensional analogue a là Robinson and Wilczek (Phys. Rev. Lett.95, 011303 (2005)), is asymptotically AdS2 and dual to a one-dimensional quantum conformal field theory (CFT). The s-wave contribution of the resulting CFT's energy–momentum tensor together with the asymptotic symmetries, generate a centrally extended Virasoro algebra, whose central charge reproduces the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy via Cardy's formula. Our derived central charge also agrees with the near extremal Kerr/CFT correspondence (Phys. Rev. D80, 124008 (2009)) in the appropriate limits. We also compute the Hawking temperature of the KNAdS black hole by coupling its Robinson and Wilczek two-dimensional analogue (RW2DA) to conformal matter.

scholarly journals $\bm{\widehat{{\rm U}(1)}\times\widehat{{\rm SU}({\lc m})}_{1}}$ THEORY AND c=m W1+∞ MINIMAL MODELS IN THE HIERARCHICAL QUANTUM HALL EFFECT

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (06) ◽  
pp. 915-926 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARINA HUERTA
Keyword(s):  
Hall Effect ◽  
Quantum Hall Effect ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Central Charge ◽  
Quantum Hall ◽  
Detailed Comparison ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Minimal Models ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Group Flow

Two classes of Conformal Field Theories have been proposed to describe the Hierarchical Quantum Hall Effect: the multicomponent bosonic theory, characterized by the symmetry [Formula: see text] and the W1+∞ minimal models with central charge c=m. In spite of having the same spectrum of edge excitations, they manifest differences in the degeneracy of the states and in the quantum statistics, which call for a more detailed comparison between them. Here, we describe their detailed relation for the general case, c=m and extend the methods previously published for c≤3. Specifically, we obtain the reduction in the number of degrees of freedom from the multicomponent Abelian theory to the minimal models by decomposing the characters of the [Formula: see text] representations into those of the c=mW1+∞ minimal models. Furthermore, we find the Hamiltonian whose renormalization group flow interpolates between the two models, having the W1+∞ minimal models as an infrared fixed point.

scholarly journals Coset construction of Virasoro minimal models and coupling of Wess–Zumino–Witten theory with Schramm–Loewner evolution

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (10) ◽  
pp. 1950037
Author(s):  
Shinji Koshida
Keyword(s):  
Field Theories ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Minimal Models ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Loewner Evolution ◽  
Witten Theory ◽  
Coset Construction ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Group Symmetries ◽  
Math Phys

Schramm–Loewner evolution (SLE) is a random process that gives a useful description of fractal curves. After its introduction, many works concerning the connection between SLE and conformal field theory (CFT) have been carried out. In this paper, we develop a new method of coupling SLE with a Wess–Zumino–Witten (WZW) model for [Formula: see text], an example of CFT, relying on a coset construction of Virasoro minimal models. Generalizations of SLE that correspond to WZW models were proposed by previous works [E. Bettelheim et al., Stochastic Loewner evolution for conformal field theories with Lie group symmetries, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 (2005) 251601] and [Alekseev et al., On SLE martingales in boundary WZW models, Lett. Math. Phys. 97 (2011) 243–261], in which the parameters in the generalized SLE for [Formula: see text] were related to the level of the corresponding [Formula: see text]-WZW model. The present work unveils the mechanism of how the parameters were chosen, and gives a simpler proof of the result in these previous works, shedding light on a new perspective of SLE/WZW coupling.

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