Asymmetric CFTs arising at the IR fixed points of RG flows

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2020.115138zbMATH Open1473.81162arXiv2005.02414OpenAlexW3047363666MaRDI QIDQ822265FDOQ822265

Authors: George Georgiou, Georgios P. D. Pappas, Konstantinos Sfetsos 

Publication date: 21 September 2021

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct a generalization of the cyclic $lambda$-deformed models of cite{Georgiou:2017oly} by relaxing the requirement that all the WZW models should have the same level $k$. Our theories are integrable and flow from a single UV point to different IR fixed points depending on the different orderings of the WZW levels $k_i$. First we calculate the Zamolodchikov's C-function for these models as exact functions of the deformation parameters. Subsequently, we fully characterize each of the IR conformal field theories. Although the corresponding left and right sectors have different symmetries, realized as products of current and coset-type symmetries, the associated central charges are precisely equal, in agreement with the valuesobtained from the C-function.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02414

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry (14D15) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Special quantum systems, such as solvable systems (81Q80)

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