Confluent primary fields in the conformal field theory

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/43/46/465203zbMath1204.81161arXiv1002.2598OpenAlexW3105111563MaRDI QIDQ3058618

Publication date: 3 December 2010

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For any complex simple Lie algebra, we generalize primary fileds in the Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten conformal field theory with respect to the case of irregular singularities and we construct integral representations of hypergeometric functions of confluent type, as expectation values of products of generalized primary fields. In the case of sl(2), these integral representations coincide with solutions to confluent KZ equations. Computing the operator product expansion of the energy-momentum tensor and the generalized primary field, new differential operators appear in the result. In the case of sl(2), these differential operators are the same as those of the confluent KZ equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2598

zbMATH Keywords

Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Painlevé and other special ordinary differential equations in the complex domain; classification, hierarchies (34M55) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Applications of Lie algebras and superalgebras to integrable systems (17B80) Moduli and deformations for ordinary differential equations (e.g., Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation) (32G34)

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