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Cardy condition for open-closed field algebras

Quantum Algebra 2011-08-31 v5 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Let VV be a vertex operator algebra satisfying certain reductivity and finiteness conditions such that CV\mathcal{C}_V, the category of V-modules, is a modular tensor category. We study open-closed field algebras over V equipped with nondegenerate invariant bilinear forms for both open and closed sectors. We show that they give algebras over certain \C\C-extension of the Swiss-cheese partial dioperad, and we obtain Ishibashi states easily in such algebras. We formulate Cardy condition algebraically in terms of the action of the modular transformation S:τ1τS: \tau \mapsto -\frac{1}{\tau} on the space of intertwining operators. We then derive a graphical representation of S in the modular tensor category CV\mathcal{C}_V. This result enables us to give a categorical formulation of Cardy condition and modular invariant conformal full field algebra over VVV\otimes V. Then we incorporate the modular invariance condition for genus-one closed theory, Cardy condition and the axioms for open-closed field algebra over V equipped with nondegenerate invariant bilinear forms into a tensor-categorical notion called Cardy CVCVV\mathcal{C}_V|\mathcal{C}_{V\otimes V}-algebra. We also give a categorical construction of Cardy CVCVV\mathcal{C}_V|\mathcal{C}_{V\otimes V}-algebra in Cardy case.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0612255,
  title  = {Cardy condition for open-closed field algebras},
  author = {Liang Kong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0612255},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

70 page, 105 figures, references are updated. less typos, to appear in Comm. Math. Phys