Analytic continuation of Liouville theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2011)071zbMath1306.81287arXiv1108.4417MaRDI QIDQ2261262

Daniel Harlow, Jonathan Maltz, Edward Witten

Publication date: 6 March 2015

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4417

zbMATH Keywords

tachyon condensation conformal and W symmetry 2D gravity Chern-Simons theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Meromorphic functions of one complex variable (general theory) (30D30)

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