Conformal amplitude hierarchy and the Poincare disk

DOI10.1088/1742-6596/965/1/012036arXiv1803.06938MaRDI QIDQ6299252FDOQ6299252

Authors: Hirohiko Shimada 

Publication date: 16 March 2018

Abstract: The amplitude for the singlet channels in the 4-point function of the fundamental field in the conformal field theory of the 2d $O(n)$ model is studied as a function of $n$. For a generic value of $n$, the 4-point function has infinitely many amplitudes, whose landscape can be very spiky as the higher amplitude changes its sign many times at the simple poles, which generalize the unique pole of the energy operator amplitude at $n=0$. In the stadard parameterization of $n$ by angle in unit of $pi$, we find that the zeros and poles happen at the rational angles, forming a hierarchical tree structure inherent in the Poincar'{e} disk. Some relation between the amplitude and the Farey path, a piecewise geodesic that visits these zeros and poles, is suggested. In this hierarchy, the symmetry of the congruence subgroup $Gamma(2)$ of $SL(2,mathbbZ)$ naturally arises from the two clearly distinct even/odd classes of the rational angles, in which one respectively gets the truncated operator algebras and the logarithmic 4-point functions.

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