Matching branches of a nonperturbative conformal block at its singularity divisor

DOI10.1007/S11232-015-0305-ZzbMATH Open1329.81332arXiv1406.4750OpenAlexW2138103232MaRDI QIDQ746986FDOQ746986

Authors: H. Itoyama, Aleksey Morozov, A. Mironov 

Publication date: 22 October 2015

Published in: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Conformal block is a function of many variables, usually represented as a formal series, with coefficients which are certain matrix elements in the chiral (e.g. Virasoro) algebra. Non-perturbative conformal block is a multi-valued function, defined globally over the space of dimensions, with many branches and, perhaps, additional free parameters, not seen at the perturbative level. We discuss additional complications of non-perturbative description, caused by the fact that all the best studied examples of conformal blocks lie at the singularity locus in the moduli space (at divisors of the coefficients or, simply, at zeroes of the Kac determinant). A typical example is the Ashkin-Teller point, where at least two naive non-perturbative expressions are provided by elliptic Dotsenko-Fateev integral and by the celebrated Zamolodchikov formula in terms of theta-constants, and they are different. The situation is somewhat similar at the Ising and other minimal model points.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4750

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal blocktwo-dimensional conformal theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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