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

DOI10.1007/S00220-007-0324-1zbMATH Open1192.81306arXivmath/0702704OpenAlexW2053316721MaRDI QIDQ934576FDOQ934576

Authors: Mihály Weiner 

Publication date: 30 July 2008

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $G_{n}subset{mDiff}^{+}(S^1)$ 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 $cleq1$, 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 $nleq3$. Moreover, an example is given for certain values $c>1$ and $h,ildeh>0$ such that $U_h^c{|}_{G_1}simeq{U}_{ildeh}^c{|}_{G_1}$. It follows that for these values $U_h^c{|}_{G_n}$ cannot be irreducible for $ngeq2$. 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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702704

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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)

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