653 research outputs found

    On scaling fields in ZNZ_N Ising models

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    We study the space of scaling fields in the ZNZ_N symmetric models with the factorized scattering and propose simplest algebraic relations between form factors induced by the action of deformed parafermionic currents. The construction gives a new free field representation for form factors of perturbed Virasoro algebra primary fields, which are parafermionic algebra descendants. We find exact vacuum expectation values of physically important fields and study correlation functions of order and disorder fields in the form factor and CFT perturbation approaches.Comment: 2 Figures, jetpl.cl

    On differential equation on four-point correlation function in the Conformal Toda Field Theory

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    The properties of completely degenerate fields in the Conformal Toda Field Theory are studied. It is shown that a generic four-point correlation function that contains only one such field does not satisfy ordinary differential equation in contrast to the Liouville Field Theory. Some additional assumptions for other fields are required. Under these assumptions we write such a differential equation and solve it explicitly. We use the fusion properties of the operator algebra to derive a special set of three-point correlation function. The result agrees with the semiclassical calculations.Comment: 5 page

    Differential equation for four-point correlation function in Liouville field theory and elliptic four-point conformal blocks

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    Liouville field theory on a sphere is considered. We explicitly derive a differential equation for four-point correlation functions with one degenerate field Vmb2V_{-\frac{mb}{2}}. We introduce and study also a class of four-point conformal blocks which can be calculated exactly and represented by finite dimensional integrals of elliptic theta-functions for arbitrary intermediate dimension. We study also the bootstrap equations for these conformal blocks and derive integral representations for corresponding four-point correlation functions. A relation between the one-point correlation function of a primary field on a torus and a special four-point correlation function on a sphere is proposed

    A conformal field theory description of the paired and parafermionic states in the quantum Hall effect

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    We extend the construction of the effective conformal field theory for the Jain hierarchical fillings proposed in cond-mat/9912287 to the description of a quantum Hall fluid at non standard fillings nu=m/(pm+2). The chiral primary fields are found by using a procedure which induces twisted boundary conditions on the m scalar fields; they appear as composite operators of a charged and neutral component. The neutral modes describe parafermions and contribute to the ground state wave function with a generalized Pfaffian term. Correlators of Ne electrons in the presence of quasi-hole excitations are explicitly given for m=2.Comment: 11 pages, plain Late

    Null vectors, 3-point and 4-point functions in conformal field theory

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    We consider 3-point and 4-point correlation functions in a conformal field theory with a W-algebra symmetry. Whereas in a theory with only Virasoro symmetry the three point functions of descendants fields are uniquely determined by the three point function of the corresponding primary fields this is not the case for a theory with W3W_3 algebra symmetry. The generic 3-point functions of W-descendant fields have a countable degree of arbitrariness. We find, however, that if one of the fields belongs to a representation with null states that this has implications for the 3-point functions. In particular if one of the representations is doubly-degenerate then the 3-point function is determined up to an overall constant. We extend our analysis to 4-point functions and find that if two of the W-primary fields are doubly degenerate then the intermediate channels are limited to a finite set and that the corresponding chiral blocks are determined up to an overall constant. This corresponds to the existence of a linear differential equation for the chiral blocks with two completely degenerate fields as has been found in the work of Bajnok~et~al.Comment: 10 pages, LaTeX 2.09, DAMTP-93-4

    Lattice WW algebras and quantum groups

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    We represent Feigin's construction [22] of lattice W algebras and give some simple results: lattice Virasoro and W3W_3 algebras. For simplest case g=sl(2)g=sl(2) we introduce whole Uq(sl(2))U_q(sl(2)) quantum group on this lattice. We find simplest two-dimensional module as well as exchange relations and define lattice Virasoro algebra as algebra of invariants of Uq(sl(2))U_q(sl(2)). Another generalization is connected with lattice integrals of motion as the invariants of quantum affine group Uq(n^+)U_q(\hat{n}_{+}). We show that Volkov's scheme leads to the system of difference equations for the function from non-commutative variables.Comment: 13 pages, misprints have been correcte

    Conserved charges in the chiral 3-state Potts model

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    We consider the perturbations of the 3-state Potts conformal field theory introduced by Cardy as a description of the chiral 3-state Potts model. By generalising Zamolodchikov's counting argument and by explicit calculation we find new inhomogeneous conserved currents for this theory. We conjecture the existence of an infinite set of conserved currents of this form and discuss their relevance to the description of the chiral Potts models

    Correlation functions of disorder fields and parafermionic currents in Z(N) Ising models

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    We study correlation functions of parafermionic currents and disorder fields in the Z(N) symmetric conformal field theory perturbed by the first thermal operator. Following the ideas of Al. Zamolodchikov, we develop for the correlation functions the conformal perturbation theory at small scales and the form factors spectral decomposition at large ones. For all N there is an agreement between the data at the intermediate distances. We consider the problems arising in the description of the space of scaling fields in perturbed models, such as null vector relations, equations of motion and a consistent treatment of fields related by a resonance condition.Comment: 41 pp. v2: some typos and references are corrected
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