Reflection and transmission of conformal perturbation defects

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/19/195401zbMATH Open1344.81131arXiv1508.04350OpenAlexW1849289863MaRDI QIDQ2991902FDOQ2991902

Authors: C. Schmidt-Colinet, I. Brunner 

Publication date: 10 August 2016

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider reflection and transmission of interfaces which implement renormalisation group flows between conformal fixed points in two dimensions. Such an RG interface is constructed from the identity defect in the ultraviolet CFT by perturbing the theory on one side of the defect line. We compute reflection and transmission coefficients in perturbation theory to third order in the coupling constant and check our calculations against exact constructions of RG interfaces between coset models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04350

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theorydefectrenormalization groupreflection and transmissioncoset modelspertubation theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24)

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• Purely transmitting defect field theories

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