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Higher rank FZZ-dualities

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-03-17 v1

Abstract

We propose new strong/weak dualities in two dimensional conformal field theories by generalizing the Fateev-Zamolodchikov-Zamolodchikov (FZZ-)duality between Witten's cigar model described by the sl(2)/u(1)\mathfrak{sl}(2)/\mathfrak{u}(1) coset and sine-Liouville theory. In a previous work, a proof of the FZZ-duality was provided by applying the reduction method from sl(2)\mathfrak{sl}(2) Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten model to Liouville field theory and the self-duality of Liouville field theory. In this paper, we work with the coset model of the type sl(N+1)/(sl(N)×u(1))\mathfrak{sl}(N+1)/(\mathfrak{sl}(N) \times \mathfrak{u}(1)) and propose that the model is dual to a theory with an sl(N+1N)\mathfrak{sl}(N+1|N) structure. We derive the duality explicitly for N=2,3N=2,3 by applying recent works on the reduction method extended for sl(N)\mathfrak{sl}(N) and the self-duality of Toda field theory. Our results can be regarded as a conformal field theoretic derivation of the duality of the Gaiotto-Rap\v{c}\'ak corner vertex operator algebras Y0,N,N+1[ψ]Y_{0, N, N+1}[\psi] and YN,0,N+1[ψ1]Y_{N, 0, N+1}[\psi^{-1}].

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@article{arxiv.2010.14681,
  title  = {Higher rank FZZ-dualities},
  author = {Thomas Creutzig and Yasuaki Hikida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.14681},
  year   = {2021}
}

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36 pages

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