Stress-energy in Liouville conformal field theory

DOI10.1007/S10955-020-02601-4MaRDI QIDQ2194202zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Joona Oikarinen, Antti Kupiainen

Publication date 25 August 2020

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05359

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryWard identitiesstress-energy tensorLiouville model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: We construct the stress-energy tensor correlation functions in probabilistic Liouville Conformal Field Theory (LCFT) on the two-dimensional sphere by studying the variation of the LCFT correlation functions with respect to a smooth Riemannian metric. In particular, we derive conformal Ward identities for these correlation functions. This forms the basis for the construction of a representation of the Virasoro algebra on the canonical Hilbert space of the LCFT. In cite{ward} the conformal Ward identities were derived for one and two stress-energy tensor insertions using a different definition of the stress-energy tensor and Gaussian integration by parts. By defining the stress-energy correlation functions as functional derivatives of the LCFT correlation functions and using the smoothness of the LCFT correlation functions proven in cite{Oik} allows us to control an arbitrary number of stress-energy tensor insertions needed for representation theory.

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