Bosonic ghosts at c=2 as a logarithmic CFT

DOI10.1007/S11005-014-0740-ZzbMATH Open1321.17019arXiv1408.4185OpenAlexW2091315470MaRDI QIDQ2255405FDOQ2255405

Authors: David Ridout, Simon Wood 

Publication date: 16 February 2015

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

Abstract: Motivated by Wakimoto free field realisations, the bosonic ghost system of central charge $c=2$ is studied using a recently proposed formalism for logarithmic conformal field theories. This formalism addresses the modular properties of the theory with the aim being to determine the (Grothendieck) fusion coefficients from a variant of the Verlinde formula. The key insight, in the case of bosonic ghosts, is to introduce a family of parabolic Verma modules which dominate the spectrum of the theory. The results include S-transformation formulae for characters, non-negative integer Verlinde coefficients, and a family of modular invariant partition functions. The logarithmic nature of the corresponding ghost theories is explicitly verified using the Nahm-Gaberdiel-Kausch fusion algorithm.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4185

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zbMATH Keywords

fusionvertex algebralogarithmic conformal field theorymodular transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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