Quantum group structure and local fields in the algebraic approach to 2D gravity

DOI10.1007/BF02066661zbMATH Open0856.17026arXivhep-th/9412176OpenAlexW2952693861MaRDI QIDQ1920659FDOQ1920659

Authors: Jens Schnittger 

Publication date: 12 August 1996

Published in: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This review contains a summary of work by J.-L. Gervais and the author on the operator approach to 2d gravity. Special emphasis is placed on the construction of local observables -the Liouville exponentials and the Liouville field itself - and the underlying algebra of chiral vertex operators. The double quantum group structure arising from the presence of two screening charges is discussed and the generalized algebra and field operators are derived. In the last part, we show that our construction gives rise to a natural definition of a quantum tau function, which is a noncommutative version of the classical group-theoretic representation of the Liouville fields by Leznov and Saveliev.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9412176

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryLiouville fieldchiral vertex operatorstwo-dimensional gravityexchange algebradouble quantum groupconstruction of local observablesLiouville exponentialsoperator Coulomb-gas realizationquantum tau function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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• The quantum group structure of 2D gravity and minimal models. I
• Group theory approach to the \(\tau\)-function and its quantization
• Schwinger-Dyson approach to Liouville field theory
• Quantum exchange algebra and locality in Liouville theory
• Poisson structure and Moyal quantisation of the Liouville theory
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