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Boundary entropy of integrable perturbed $SU(2)_k$ WZNW

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-06-06 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We apply the recently developped analytical methods for computing the boundary entropy, or the g-function, in integrable theories with non-diagonal scattering. We consider the particular case of the current-perturbed SU(2)kSU(2)_k WZNW model with boundary and compute the boundary entropy for a specific boundary condition. The main problem we encounter is that in case of non-diagonal scattering the boundary entropy is infinite. We show that this infinity can be cured by a subtraction. The difference of the boundary entropies in the UV and in the IR limits is finite, and matches the known g-functions for the unperturbed SU(2)kSU(2)_k WZNW model for even values of the level.

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@article{arxiv.1906.01909,
  title  = {Boundary entropy of integrable perturbed $SU(2)_k$ WZNW},
  author = {Ivan Kostov and Didina Serban and Dinh-Long Vu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.01909},
  year   = {2019}
}

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27 pages, 3 figures