2D conformal field theories and holography

DOI10.1063/1.1745127zbMATH Open1071.81093arXivhep-th/0205091OpenAlexW3105553883MaRDI QIDQ4833432FDOQ4833432

Authors: Laurent Freidel, Kirill Krasnov 

Publication date: 15 December 2004

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

Abstract: It is known that the chiral part of any 2d conformal field theory defines a 3d topological quantum field theory: quantum states of this TQFT are the CFT conformal blocks. The main aim of this paper is to show that a similar CFT/TQFT relation exists also for the full CFT. The 3d topological theory that arises is a certain ``square of the chiral TQFT. Such topological theories were studied by Turaev and Viro; they are related to 3d gravity. We establish an operator/state correspondence in which operators in the chiral TQFT correspond to states in the Turaev-Viro theory. We use this correspondence to interpret CFT correlation functions as particular quantum states of the Turaev-Viro theory. We compute the components of these states in the basis in the Turaev-Viro Hilbert space given by colored 3-valent graphs. The formula we obtain is a generalization of the Verlinde formula. The later is obtained from our expression for a zero colored graph. Our results give an interesting ``holographic perspective on conformal field theories in 2 dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0205091

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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