Zero modes of local operators in 2d CFT on a cylinder

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2020)172MaRDI QIDQ2215414zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anatoly Dymarsky, Kirill Pavlenko, Dmitry A. Solovyev

Publication date 11 December 2020

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.13444

zbMATH Keywords

conformal and W symmetryconformal field theoryintegrable field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: Studies of Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) in two-dimensional CFTs call for calculation of the expectation values of local operators in highly excited energy eigenstates. This can be done efficiently by representing zero modes of these operators in terms of the Virasoro algebra generators. In this paper we present a pedagogical introduction explaining how this calculation can be performed analytically or using computer algebra. We illustrate the computation of zero modes by a number of examples and list explicit expressions for all local operators from the vacuum family with the dimension of less or equal than eight. Finally, we derive an explicit expression for the quantum KdV generator $Q_7$ in terms of the Virasoro algebra generators. The obtained results can be used for quantitative studies of ETH at finite value of central charge.

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