Conformal blocks in Virasoro and W theories: Duality and the Calogero-Sutherland model

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DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2012.03.007zbMATH Open1246.81323arXiv1110.1101OpenAlexW2102499404MaRDI QIDQ447351FDOQ447351


Authors: Benoit Estienne, Vincent Pasquier, Raoul Santachiara, Didina Serban Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 3 September 2012

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

Abstract: We study the properties of the conformal blocks of the conformal field theories with Virasoro or W-extended symmetry. When the conformal blocks contain only second-order degenerate fields, the conformal blocks obey second order differential equations and they can be interpreted as ground-state wave functions of a trigonometric Calogero-Sutherland Hamiltonian with non-trivial braiding properties. A generalized duality property relates the two types of second order degenerate fields. By studying this duality we found that the excited states of the Calogero-Sutherland Hamiltonian are characterized by two partitions, or in the case of WA_{k-1} theories by k partitions. By extending the conformal field theories under consideration by a u(1) field, we find that we can put in correspondence the states in the Hilbert state of the extended CFT with the excited non-polynomial eigenstates of the Calogero-Sutherland Hamiltonian. When the action of the Calogero-Sutherland integrals of motion is translated on the Hilbert space, they become identical to the integrals of motion recently discovered by Alba, Fateev, Litvinov and Tarnopolsky in Liouville theory in the context of the AGT conjecture. Upon bosonisation, these integrals of motion can be expressed as a sum of two, or in general k, bosonic Calogero-Sutherland Hamiltonian coupled by an interaction term with a triangular structure. For special values of the coupling constant, the conformal blocks can be expressed in terms of Jack polynomials with pairing properties, and they give electron wave functions for special Fractional Quantum Hall states


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1101




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