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FZZ-triality and large $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Liouville theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-04-06 v2

Abstract

We examine dualities of two dimensional conformal field theories by applying the methods developed in previous works. We first derive the duality between SL(21)k/(SL(2)kU(1))SL(2|1)_k/(SL(2)_k \otimes U(1)) coset and Witten's cigar model or sine-Liouville theory. The latter two models are Fateev-Zamolodchikov-Zamolodchikov (FZZ-)dual to each other, hence the relation of the three models is named FZZ-triality. These results are used to study correlator correspondences between large N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super Liouville theory and a coset of the form Y(k1,k2)/SL(2)k1+k2Y(k_1,k_2)/SL(2)_{k_1 +k_2}, where Y(k1,k2)Y(k_1 , k_2) consists of two SL(21)kiSL(2|1)_{k_i} and free bosons or equivalently two U(1)U(1) cosets of D(2,1;ki1)D(2,1;k_i -1) at level one. These correspondences are a main result of this paper. The FZZ-triality acts as a seed of the correspondence, which in particular implies a hidden SL(2)kSL(2)_{k'} in SL(21)kSL(2|1)_k or D(2,1;k1)1D(2,1 ; k-1)_1. The relation of levels is k1=1/(k1)k' -1 = 1/(k-1). We also construct boundary actions in sine-Liouville theory as another use of the FZZ-triality. Furthermore, we generalize the FZZ-triality to the case with SL(n1)k/(SL(n)kU(1))SL(n|1)_k/(SL(n)_k \otimes U(1)) for arbitrary n>2n>2.

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@article{arxiv.2111.12845,
  title  = {FZZ-triality and large $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Liouville theory},
  author = {Thomas Creutzig and Yasuaki Hikida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.12845},
  year   = {2022}
}

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41 pages, minor modifications, references added, published version