Integrability of \mathcal W({\mathfrak{sl}_d})-symmetric Toda conformal field theories I : Quantum geometry

Authors Raphael Belliard, Bertrand Eynard

Publication date 10 January 2018

Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Applications of Lie algebras and superalgebras to integrable systems (17B80) Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: In this article which is the first of a series of three, we consider

m a t h c a l W (m a t h f r a k {s l}_{d})

-symmetric conformal field theory in topological regimes for a generic value of the background charge, where

m a t h c a l W (m a t h f r a k {s l}_{d})

is the W-algebra associated to the affine Lie algebra

w i d e h a t m a t h f r a k {s l}_{d}

, whose vertex operator algebra is included to that of the affine Lie algebra

w i d e h a t {m a t h f r a k g}_{1}

at level 1. In such regimes, the theory admits a free field representation. We show that the generalized Ward identities assumed to be satisfied by chiral conformal blocks with current insertions can be solved perturbatively in topological regimes. This resolution uses a generalization of the topological recursion to non-commutative, or quantum, spectral curves. In turn, special geometry arguments yields a conjecture for the perturbative reconstruction of a particular chiral block.

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