Duality in quantum Liouville theory.

DOI10.1006/APHY.1999.5951zbMATH Open1050.81676arXivhep-th/9811090OpenAlexW3122249156MaRDI QIDQ1961065FDOQ1961065

Authors: Jan M. Pawlowski, V. V. Sreedhar, L. O'Raifeartaigh 

Publication date: 30 March 2000

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

Abstract: The quantisation of the two-dimensional Liouville field theory is investigated using the path integral, on the sphere, in the large radius limit. The general form of the $N$-point functions of vertex operators is found and the three-point function is derived explicitly. In previous work it was inferred that the three-point function should possess a two-dimensional lattice of poles in the parameter space (as opposed to a one-dimensional lattice one would expect from the standard Liouville potential). Here we argue that the two-dimensionality of the lattice has its origin in the duality of the quantum mechanical Liouville states and we incorporate this duality into the path integral by using a two-exponential potential. Contrary to what one might expect, this does not violate conformal invariance; and has the great advantage of producing the two-dimensional lattice in a natural way.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9811090

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23)

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