Restricting positive energy representations of Diff^+(S^1) to the stabilizer of n points

Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65)

Abstract: Let

G_{n} s u b s e t {m D i f f}^{+} (S^{1})

be the stabilizer of

n

given points of

S^{1}

. How much information do we lose if we restrict a positive energy representation

U_{h}^{c}

associated to an admissible pair

(c, h)

of the central charge and lowest energy, to the subgroup

G_{n}

? The question, and a part of the answer originate in chiral conformal QFT. The value of

c

can be easily ``recovered from such a restriction; the hard question concerns the value of $h$ . If $c l e q 1$ , then there is no loss of information, and accordingly, all of these restrictions are irreducible. In this work it is shown that $U_{h}^{c} |_{G_{n}}$ is always irreducible for $n = 1$ , and if $h = 0$ , it is irreducible at least up to $n l e q 3$ . Moreover, an example is given for certain values $c > 1$ and $h, i l d e h > 0$ such that $U_{h}^{c} |_{G_{1}} s i m e q U_{i l d e h}^{c} |_{G_{1}}$ . It follows that for these values $U_{h}^{c} |_{G_{n}}$ cannot be irreducible for $n g e q 2$ . For further values of $c, h$ and $n$ , the question is left open. Nevertheless, the example already shows, that in general, local and global intertwiners in a QFT model may not be equivalent.

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