Derivation of all structure constants for boundary Liouville CFT

arXiv2305.18266MaRDI QIDQ6510330FDOQ6510330

Authors: Morris Ang, Guillaume Remy, Xin Sun, Tunan Zhu 

Abstract: We prove that the probabilistic definition of the most general boundary three-point and bulk-boundary structure constants in Liouville conformal field theory (LCFT) agree respectively with the formula proposed by Ponsot-Techsner (2002) and by Hosomichi (2001). These formulas also respectively describe the fusion kernel and modular kernel of the Virasoro conformal blocks, which are important functions in various contexts of mathematical physics. As an intermediate step, we obtain the formula for the boundary reflection coefficient of LCFT proposed by Fateev-Zamolodchikov-Zamolodchikov (2000). Our proof relies on the boundary Belavin-Polyakov-Zamolodchikov differential equation recently proved by the first named author, a conformal welding result proved by Wu (2023), and an integrable input from the mating-of-trees theory for Liouville quantum gravity (LQG). Our results supply all the structure constants needed to perform the conformal bootstrap for boundary LCFT. They also yield exact descriptions for the joint law of the area and boundary lengths of basic LQG surfaces, including quantum triangles and two-pointed quantum disks.

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