Universal RCFT correlators from the holomorphic bootstrap

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2018)028MaRDI QIDQ1748724zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Sunil Mukhi, Girish Muralidhara

Publication date 14 May 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.06772

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryfield theories in lower dimensionsconformal and W symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: We elaborate and extend the method of Wronskian differential equations for conformal blocks to compute four-point correlation functions on the plane for classes of primary fields in rational (and possibly more general) conformal field theories. This approach leads to universal differential equations for families of CFT's and provides a very simple re-derivation of the BPZ results for the degenerate fields $ph{i}_{1,2}$ and $ph{i}_{2,1}$ in the c < 1 minimal models. We apply this technique to compute correlators for the WZW models corresponding to the Deligne-Cvitanovi'c exceptional series of Lie algebras. The application turns out to be subtle in certain cases where there are multiple decoupled primaries. The power of this approach is demonstrated by applying it to compute four-point functions for the Baby Monster CFT, which does not belong to any minimal series.

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