Local energy bounds and strong locality in chiral CFT

DOI10.1007/S00220-021-04291-9zbMATH Open1486.81154arXiv2103.16475OpenAlexW4206282810MaRDI QIDQ2113479FDOQ2113479

Y. Tanimoto, Mihály Weiner, Sebastiano Carpi

Publication date: 14 March 2022

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A family of quantum fields is said to be strongly local if it generates a local net of von Neumann algebras. There are few methods of showing directly strong locality of a quantum field. Among them, linear energy bounds are the most widely used, yet a chiral conformal field of conformal weight $d>2$ cannot admit linear energy bounds. In this paper we give a new direct method to prove strong locality in two-dimensional conformal field theory. We prove that if a chiral conformal field satisfies an energy bound of degree $d-1$, then it also satisfies a certain local version of the energy bound, and this in turn implies strong locality. A central role in our proof is played by diffeomorphism symmetry. As a concrete application, we show that the vertex operator algebra given by a unitary vacuum representation of the $mathcal{W}_3$-algebra is strongly local. For central charge $c>2$, this yields a new conformal net. We further prove that these nets do not satisfy strong additivity, and hence are not completely rational.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16475

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10) Linear operators in (C^*)- or von Neumann algebras (47C15)

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