Quantum group symmetries and non-local currents in 2D QFT (Q1179851)

The authors study the new non-local conserved currents and charges that exist in a wide variety of massive integrable quantum field theories in two dimensions. The sine-Gordon theory and the affine Toda theory with their non-local currents and charges are derived here from the Euclidean actions \[ S=(1/4\pi)\int d^ 2z \partial_ z\Phi\partial_{\bar z}\Phi+(\lambda/\pi)\int d^ 2z:\;\cos(\hat\beta\Phi): \] and \[ S=(1/4\pi)\int d^ 2z \partial_ z\Phi\partial_{\bar z}\Phi+(1/2\pi)\int d^ 2z \sum_{\alpha_ j\text{ simple}}\exp(- i(\hat\beta/2)\alpha_ j\Phi), \] respectively. Next they try to give a formalism based on their non-local charges. The symmetry algebras of the nonlocal charges correspond to the quantum affine Kac-Moody algebras. Then they provide the soliton \(S\)-matrices completely characterized by the symmetry and obtain non-perturbative informations of these two theories. The application of these \(S\)-matrices to perturbed coset conformal field theory and the non-local charges generating the finite dimensional quantum group in the Liouville theory are also represented here. Finally they show the descriptions of their results from a different point of view, for example from the view point of the deformed Gross- Neveu model, etc.