SLE and Virasoro representations: fusion (Q2018305)

The background material for the present paper can be found in [the author, ibid. 336, No. 2, 695--760 (2015; Zbl 1318.82007)]. Algebraic aspects of the present paper may look familiar to readers knowledgeable of the CFT treatment of fusion. However, its main contribution resides in implementing fusion rules for objects and quantitities originating in SLE. Beginning from the seminal BPZ work [\textit{A. A. Belavin} et al., Nucl. Phys., B 241, No. 2, 333--380 (1984; Zbl 0661.17013)], an implicit idea that certain critical two-dimensional statistical physics models involve weighted null-vectors whose weights are directly related with boundary condtions in the BCFT, is currently interpreted in terms of the dynamics of intefaces in the Schramm-Loewner evolutions (SLE). Starting from \(n\) commuting SLEs, seeded at distinct points, the partition function is found to satusfy null-vector differential equations (at level 2). Higher level null-vector equations are obtained by coalescing seeds one by one. The argument combines the study of Verma modules for the Virasoro algebra with various regularity estimates, those being based on hypoellipticity and stochastic flow arguments.