On thermodynamic approaches to conformal field theory

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00340-XzbMATH Open1031.81631arXivhep-th/9804025OpenAlexW2026171100MaRDI QIDQ1570493FDOQ1570493

José Gaite

Publication date: 11 July 2000

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

Abstract: We present the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz as a way to factorize the partition function of a 2d field theory, in particular, a conformal field theory and we compare it with another approach to factorization due to K. Schoutens which consists of diagonalizing matrix recursion relations between the partition functions at consecutive levels. We prove that both are equivalent, taking as examples the SU(2) spinons and the 3-state Potts model. In the latter case we see that there are two different thermodynamic Bethe ansatz equation systems with the same physical content, of which the second is new and corresponds to a one-quasiparticle representation, as opposed to the usual two-quasiparticle representation. This new thermodynamic Bethe ansatz system leads to a new dilogarithmic formula for the central charge of that model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9804025

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23)

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• Exclusion statistics in conformal field theory -- generalized fermions and spinons for level-\(1\) WZW theories

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