On SLE martingales in boundary WZW models

DOI10.1007/S11005-011-0500-2zbMATH Open1238.60088arXiv1012.3113OpenAlexW2063163509MaRDI QIDQ657635FDOQ657635

Anton Alekseev, Konstantin Izyurov, A. G. Bytsko

Publication date: 10 January 2012

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

Abstract: We consider the boundary WZW model on a half-plane with a cut growing according to the Schramm-Loewner stochastic evolution and the boundary fields inserted at the tip of the cut and at infinity. We study necessary and sufficient conditions for boundary correlation functions to be SLE martingales. Necessary conditions come from the requirement for the boundary field at the tip of the cut to have a depth two null vector. Sufficient conditions are established using Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations for boundary correlators. Combining these two approaches, we show that in the case of G=SU(2) the boundary correlator is an SLE martingale if and only if the boundary field carries spin 1/2. In the case of G=SU(n) and k=1, there are several situations when boundary one-point correlators are SLE(kappa)-martingales. If the boundary field is labelled by the defining n-dimensional representation of SU(n), we obtain kappa=2. For n even, by choosing the boundary field labelled by the (unique) self-adjoint fundamental representation, we get kappa=8/(n+2). We also study the situation when the distance between the two boundary fields is finite, and we show that in this case the SLE(kappa) evolution is replaced by SLE(kappa,rho) with rho=kappa-6.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.3113

zbMATH Keywords

Schramm-Loewner evolutionboundary conformal field theoryWess-Zumino-Witten model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Stochastic (Schramm-)Loewner evolution (SLE) (60J67)

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