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Generalised integrable $\lambda$- and $\eta$-deformations and their relation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-09-01 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

We construct two-parameter families of integrable λ\lambda-deformations of two-dimensional field theories. These interpolate between a CFT (a WZW/gauged WZW model) and the non-Abelian T-dual of a principal chiral model on a group/symmetric coset space. In examples based on the SU(2)SU(2) WZW model and the SU(2)/U(1)SU(2)/U(1) exact coset CFT, we show that these deformations are related to bi-Yang-Baxter generalisations of η\eta-deformations via Poisson-Lie T-duality and analytic continuation. We illustrate the quantum behaviour of our models under RG flow. As a byproduct we demonstrate that the bi-Yang-Baxter σ\sigma-model for a general group is one-loop renormalisable.

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@article{arxiv.1506.05784,
  title  = {Generalised integrable $\lambda$- and $\eta$-deformations and their relation},
  author = {Konstantinos Sfetsos and Konstantinos Siampos and Daniel C. Thompson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.05784},
  year   = {2015}
}

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33 pages, Latex, v2: 35 pages, Latex, clarifying comments, v3: few minor changes, NPB version

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