Berry phases on Virasoro orbits

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Publication:1709331

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2017)114zbMATH Open1383.81249arXiv1703.06142MaRDI QIDQ1709331FDOQ1709331

Blagoje Oblak

Publication date: 27 March 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We point out that unitary representations of the Virasoro algebra contain Berry phases obtained by acting on a primary state with conformal transformations that trace a closed path on a Virasoro coadjoint orbit. These phases can be computed exactly thanks to the Maurer-Cartan form on the Virasoro group, and they persist after combining left- and right-moving sectors. Thinking of Virasoro representations as particles in AdS_3 dressed with boundary gravitons, the Berry phases associated with Brown-Henneaux diffeomorphisms provide a gravitational extension of Thomas precession.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06142





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