Ghost systems revisited: modified Virasoro generators and logarithmic conformal field theories

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2003/01/020MaRDI QIDQ648823zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marco Krohn, Michael Flohr

Publication date 29 November 2011

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0212016

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of deformations of analytic structures to the sciences (32G81) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: We study the possibility of extending ghost systems with higher spin to a logarithmic conformal field theory. In particular we are interested in c=-26 which turns out to behave very differently to the already known c=-2 case. The energy momentum tensor cannot be built anymore by a combination of derivatives of generalized symplectic fermion fields. Moreover, the logarithmically extended theory is only consistent when considered on nontrivial Riemann surfaces. This results in a LCFT with some unexpected properties. For instance the Virasoro mode L_0 is diagonal and for certain values of the deformation parameters even the whole global conformal group is non-logarithmic.

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• Bosonic ghosts at \(c=2\) as a logarithmic CFT
• Indecomposable representations in \(\mathbb Z_n\) symmetric \(b, c\) ghost systems via deformations of the Virasoro field
• On a logarithmic deformation of the supersymmetric bc-system on curved manifolds
• Notes on non-trivial and logarithmic conformal field theories with \(c = 0\)
• Notes on generalised nullvectors in logarithmic CFT

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