Duality without supersymmetry (Q1298389)

The author shows that physical quantities in several integrable models of 1+1-dimensional boundary quantum field theory can be expressed as integrals like \[ f(u)=\int_{\mathcal C} {dx\over y}, \] for some contour \(\mathcal C\). In particular, the magnetization in the Kondo problem and the current in the boundary sine-Gordon model can each be expressed in this form, where for example in the latter \(y^2=x+x^g-u^2\) with \(u\) related to the boundary mass scale. This paper explores two somewhat different forms of duality: the ability to express physical quantities as curves around branch-point singularities, and the ability to relate different physics by a \(g\to {1\over g}\) mapping.