Completeness Conditions for Boundary Operators in 2D Conformal Field Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v1 Condensed Matter
Abstract
In non-diagonal conformal models, the boundary fields are not directly related to the bulk spectrum. We illustrate some of their features by completing previous work of Lewellen on sewing constraints for conformal theories in the presence of boundaries. As a result, we include additional open sectors in the descendants of WZW models. A new phenomenon emerges, the appearance of multiplicities and fixed-point ambiguities in the boundary algebra not inherited from the closed sector. We conclude by deriving a set of polynomial equations, similar to those satisfied by the fusion-rule coefficients , for a new tensor that determines the open spectrum.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9603097,
title = {Completeness Conditions for Boundary Operators in 2D Conformal Field Theory},
author = {Gianfranco Pradisi and Augusto Sagnotti and Yassen S. Stanev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9603097},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, Latex, 3 figures