Local energy bounds and strong locality in chiral CFT

DOI10.1007/S00220-021-04291-9MaRDI QIDQ2113479zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sebastiano Carpi, Y. Tanimoto, Mihály Weiner

Publication date 14 March 2022

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

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

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)

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.

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