Relating c<0 and c>0 conformal field theories

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00059-5MaRDI QIDQ1383545zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. Guruswamy, A. Ludwig

Publication date 21 April 1998

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9612172

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac theoryfermionic ghostscanonical mappingbosonic ghosts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: A `canonical mapping' is established between the c=-1 system of bosonic ghosts and the c=2 complex scalar theory and, a similar mapping between the c=-2 system of fermionic ghosts and the c=1 Dirac theory. The existence of this mapping is suggested by the identity of the characters of the respective theories. The respective c<0 and c>0 theories share the same space of states, whereas the spaces of conformal fields are different. Upon this mapping from their c<0 counterparts, the (c>0) complex scalar and the Dirac theories inherit hidden nonlocal sl(2) symmetries.

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