Stress-energy in Liouville conformal field theory

DOI10.1007/S10955-020-02601-4zbMATH Open1446.81036arXiv1911.05359OpenAlexW2987543855WikidataQ98499956 ScholiaQ98499956MaRDI QIDQ2194202FDOQ2194202

Antti Kupiainen, Joona Oikarinen

Publication date: 25 August 2020

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

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.

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)

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