Critical boundary sine-Gordon revisited

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2006.02.006zbMATH Open1108.81043arXivhep-th/0512219OpenAlexW2003593834MaRDI QIDQ857435FDOQ857435

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)

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.

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

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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)

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