Critical boundary sine-Gordon revisited

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2006.02.006MaRDI QIDQ857435zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Hasselfield, P. C. E. Stamp, Taejin Lee, G. W. Semenoff

Publication date 14 December 2006

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0512219

zbMATH Keywords

sine-Gordon model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: We revisit the exact solution of the two space-time dimensional quantum field theory of a free massless boson with a periodic boundary interaction and self-dual period. We analyze the model by using a mapping to free fermions with a boundary mass term originally suggested in ref.[22]. We find that the entire SL(2,C) family of boundary states of a single boson are boundary sine-Gordon states and we derive a simple explicit expression for the boundary state in fermion variables and as a function of sine-Gordon coupling constants. We use this expression to compute the partition function. We observe that the solution of the model has a strong-weak coupling generalization of T-duality. We then examine a class of recently discovered conformal boundary states for compact bosons with radii which are rational numbers times the self-dual radius. These have simple expression in fermion variables. We postulate sine-Gordon-like field theories with discrete gauge symmmetries for which they are the appropriate boundary states.

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