Four-dimensional conformal field theory models with rational correlation functions

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/12/319zbMATH Open1041.81097arXivhep-th/0110230OpenAlexW1661882198MaRDI QIDQ4465607FDOQ4465607

Authors: Nikolay M. Nikolov, Ya. S. Stanev, Ivan Todorov 

Publication date: 9 June 2004

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

Abstract: Recently established rationality of correlation functions in a globally conformal invariant quantum field theory satisfying Wightman axioms is used to construct a family of soluble models in 4-dimensional Minkowski space-time. We consider in detail a model of a neutral scalar field $phi$ of dimension 2. It depends on a positive real parameter c, an analogue of the Virasoro central charge, and admits for all (finite) c an infinite number of conserved symmetric tensor currents. The operator product algebra of $phi$ is shown to coincide with a simpler one, generated by a bilocal scalar field $V(x_1,x_2)$ of dimension (1,1). The modes of V together with the unit operator span an infinite dimensional Lie algebra $L_V$ whose vacuum (i.e. zero energy lowest weight) representations only depend on the central charge c. Wightman positivity (i.e. unitarity of the representations of $L_V$) is proven to be equivalent to $cinN$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0110230

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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