A MATHEMATICA™ PACKAGE FOR COMPUTING OPERATOR PRODUCT EXPANSIONS

1991 ◽  
Vol 02 (03) ◽  
pp. 787-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. THIELEMANS
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Conformal Field Theory ◽  
Free Field ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Operator Product ◽  
Conformal Anomaly ◽  
Moody Algebra ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Free Field Realization

A general purpose Mathematica™ package for computing Operator Product Expansions of composite operators in meromorphic conformal field theory is described. Given the OPEs for a set of “basic” fields, OPEs of arbitrarily complicated composites can be computed automatically. Normal ordered products are always reduced to a standard form. Two explicit examples are presented: the conformal anomaly for superstrings and a free field realization for the [Formula: see text] Kač-Moody-algebra.

scholarly journals THE FREE FIELD REPRESENTATION OF SU(3) CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY

1993 ◽  
Vol 08 (23) ◽  
pp. 4031-4053
Author(s):  
HOVIK D. TOOMASSIAN
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Conformal Field Theory ◽  
Correlation Functions ◽  
Free Field ◽  
Field Representation ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Point Correlation

The structure of the free field representation and some four-point correlation functions of the SU(3) conformal field theory are considered.

scholarly journals Operator product expansion convergence in conformal field theory

2012 ◽  
Vol 86 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Duccio Pappadopulo ◽  
Slava Rychkov ◽  
Johnny Espin ◽  
Riccardo Rattazzi
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Conformal Field Theory ◽  
Operator Product Expansion ◽  
Operator Product ◽  
Conformal Field

scholarly journals COORDINATE-INVARIANT PATH INTEGRAL METHODS IN CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (17) ◽  
pp. 3525-3563 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDRÉ VAN TONDER
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Conformal Field Theory ◽  
Path Integral ◽  
Direct Calculation ◽  
Conformal Anomaly ◽  
Operator Formalism ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Integral Methods ◽  
Change Of Variables ◽  
Definition Of

We present a coordinate-invariant approach, based on a Pauli–Villars measure, to the definition of the path integral in two-dimensional conformal field theory. We discuss some advantages of this approach compared to the operator formalism and alternative path integral approaches. We show that our path integral measure is invariant under conformal transformations and field reparametrizations, in contrast to the measure used in the Fujikawa calculation, and we show the agreement, despite different origins, of the conformal anomaly in the two approaches. The natural energy–momentum in the Pauli–Villars approach is a true coordinate-invariant tensor quantity, and we discuss its nontrivial relationship to the corresponding nontensor object arising in the operator formalism, thus providing a novel explanation within a path integral context for the anomalous Ward identities of the latter. We provide a direct calculation of the nontrivial contact terms arising in expectation values of certain energy–momentum products, and we use these to perform a simple consistency check confirming the validity of the change of variables formula for the path integral. Finally, we review the relationship between the conformal anomaly and the energy–momentum two-point functions in our formalism.

scholarly journals Logarithmic Operators in Conformal Field Theory and the ${\mathcal W}_\infty$-Algebra

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 3723-3738 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Shafiekhani ◽  
M. R. Rahimi Tabar
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Conformal Field Theory ◽  
Correlation Functions ◽  
Operator Product Expansion ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Operator Product ◽  
Tensor Operator ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Point Correlation

It is shown explicitly that the correlation functions of conformal field theories (CFT) with the logarithmic operators are invariant under the differential realization of Borel subalgebra of [Formula: see text]-algebra. This algebra is constructed by tensor-operator algebra of differential representation of ordinary [Formula: see text]. This method allows us to write differential equations which can be used to find general expression for three- and four-point correlation functions possessing logarithmic operators. The operator product expansion (OPE) coefficients of general logarithmic CFT are given up to third level.

Lie algebra extensions of current algebras on S3

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (09) ◽  
pp. 1550087 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tosiaki Kori ◽  
Yuto Imai
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Conformal Field Theory ◽  
Lie Algebra ◽  
Current Algebra ◽  
Central Extension ◽  
Mathematical Tool ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Root Space ◽  
Moody Algebra ◽  
Conformal Field

An affine Kac–Moody algebra is a central extension of the Lie algebra of smooth mappings from S1 to the complexification of a Lie algebra. In this paper, we shall introduce a central extension of the Lie algebra of smooth mappings from S3 to the quaternization of a Lie algebra and investigate its root space decomposition. We think this extension of current algebra might give a mathematical tool for four-dimensional conformal field theory as Kac–Moody algebras give it for two-dimensional conformal field theory.

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