Conformal field theories of stochastic Loewner evolutions

DOI10.1007/S00220-003-0881-XzbMATH Open1046.81091arXivhep-th/0210015OpenAlexW2041725895MaRDI QIDQ1416909FDOQ1416909

Michel Bauer, Denis Bernard

Publication date: 16 December 2003

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Stochastic Loewner evolutions (SLE) are random growth processes of sets, called hulls, embedded in the two dimensional upper half plane. We elaborate and develop a relation between SLE evolutions and conformal field theories (CFT) which is based on a group theoretical formulation of SLE processes and on the identification of the proper hull boundary states. This allows us to define an infinite set of SLE zero modes, or martingales, whose existence is a consequence of the existence of a null vector in the appropriate Virasoro modules. This identification leads, for instance, to linear systems for generalized crossing probabilities whose coefficients are multipoint CFT correlation functions. It provides a direct link between conformal correlation functions and probabilities of stopping time events in SLE evolutions. We point out a relation between SLE processes and two dimensional gravity and conjecture a reconstruction procedure of conformal field theories from SLE data.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0210015

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theorystochastic Loewner equationVirasoro module

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Ordinary differential equations and systems with randomness (34F05) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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