On the large N limit of conformal field theory

DOI10.1016/S0003-4916(03)00002-2MaRDI QIDQ1869987zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. B. Halpern

Publication date 4 May 2003

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0208150

zbMATH Keywords

\({\mathfrak{su}}(N)\) affine Lie algebraBose systemsfree Cuntz algebraic formulationKoba-Nielsen factormatrix mechanicstwo-dimensional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: Following recent advances in large N matrix mechanics, I discuss here the free (Cuntz) algebraic formulation of the large N limit of two-dimensional conformal field theories of chiral adjoint fermions and bosons. One of the central results is a new {it affine free algebra} which describes a large N limit of su(N) affine Lie algebra. Other results include the associated {it free-algebraic partition functions and characters}, a free-algebraic coset construction, free- algebraic construction of osp(1|2), {it free-algebraic vertex operator constructions} in the large N Bose systems and a provocative new free-algebraic factorization of the ordinary Koba-Nielsen factor.

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