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Exclusion statistics in conformal field theory and the UCPF for WZW models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v2 Statistical Mechanics Quantum Algebra

Abstract

In this paper we further elaborate on the notion of fractional exclusion statistics, as introduced by Haldane, in two-dimensional conformal field theory, and its connection to the Universal Chiral Partition Function as defined by McCoy and collaborators. We will argue that in general, besides the pseudo-particles introduced recently by Guruswamy and Schoutens, one needs additional `null quasi-particles' to account for the null-states in the quasi-particle Fock space. We illustrate this in several examples of WZW-models.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9903176,
  title  = {Exclusion statistics in conformal field theory and the UCPF for WZW models},
  author = {Peter Bouwknegt and Leung Chim and David Ridout},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9903176},
  year   = {2014}
}

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