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Exact Partition Function and Boundary State of 2-D Massive Ising Field Theory with Boundary Magnetic Field

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We compute the exact partition function, the universal ground state degeneracy and boundary state of the 2-D Ising model with boundary magnetic field at off-critical temperatures. The model has a domain that exhibits states localized near the boundaries. We study this domain of boundary bound state and derive exact expressions for the ``gg function'' and boundary state for all temperatures and boundary magnetic fields. In the massless limit we recover the boundary renormalization group flow between the conformally invariant free and fixed boundary conditions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9509071,
  title  = {Exact Partition Function and Boundary State of 2-D Massive Ising Field Theory with Boundary Magnetic Field},
  author = {R. Chatterjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9509071},
  year   = {2009}
}

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plain latex, 17 pages plus 11 figures in 3 .ps files, uuencoded in isfig.uu