Thermal states in conformal QFT. I (Q663293)

The authors study of the thermal state structure in conformal quantum field theory, namely they study the set of locally normal KMS states on a local conformal net of von Neumann algebras on the real line with respect to the translation automorphism group. They focus on the completely rational net \(\mathcal{A}\) and concludes that, if \(\mathcal{A}\) is completely rational local conformal net, then there exists only one locally normal KMS state \(\varphi\) with respect to translations on \(\mathcal{A}\) at any fixed inverse temperature \(\beta>0\). This state is the geometric KMS state \(\varphi_{\text{geo}}\) which is canonically constructed for any (rational or non-rational) local conformal (diffeomorphism covariant) net. The proof of this result is obtained in several steps by crucial use of the thermal completion net and an inductive extension procedure.