Vacuum decay in CFT and the Riemann-Hilbert problem

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2016.03.039zbMATH Open1336.81079arXiv1512.06721OpenAlexW2196513660MaRDI QIDQ288432FDOQ288432

Authors: Guilherme L. Pimentel, Alexander M. Polyakov, Grigory Tarnopolsky 

Publication date: 26 May 2016

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study vacuum stability in 1+1 dimensional Conformal Field Theories with external background fields. We show that the vacuum decay rate is given by a non-local two-form. This two-form is a boundary term that must be added to the effective in/out Lagrangian. The two-form is expressed in terms of a Riemann-Hilbert decomposition for background gauge fields, and its novel "functional" version in the gravitational case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.06721

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemann-Hilbert problems in context of PDEs (35Q15) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17)

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