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Boundary scattering in the principal chiral model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

An informal introduction to our recent work on the principal chiral model with boundary. We found that both classically integrable boundary conditions and quantum boundary S-matrices were classified by the symmetric spaces G/H. The connection is explained by the presence of a twisted Yangian algebra of non-local charges.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0107256,
  title  = {Boundary scattering in the principal chiral model},
  author = {Niall MacKay and Ben Short},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0107256},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Updated v2 based on talk at 'IFTs, Solitons and Duality', Sao Paulo 2002; v1 appeared in Proc. QGIS Prague 2001

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