Integrable and Conformal Boundary Conditions for Z_k Parafermions on a Cylinder
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-09-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice
Abstract
We study integrable and conformal boundary conditions for ^sl(2) Z_k parafermions on a cylinder. These conformal field theories are realized as the continuum scaling limit of critical A-D-E lattice models with negative spectral parameter. The conformal boundary conditions labelled by (a,m) in (G, Z_{2k}) are identified with associated integrable lattice boundary conditions labelled by (r,a) in (A_{g-2},G) where g is the Coxeter number of the A-D-E graph G. We obtain analytically the boundary free energies, present general expressions for the parafermion cylinder partition functions and confirm these results by numerical calculations.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0103232,
title = {Integrable and Conformal Boundary Conditions for Z_k Parafermions on a Cylinder},
author = {Christian Mercat and Paul A. Pearce},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0103232},
year = {2009}
}
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27 pages, 1 Encapsulated Postscript figure, uses lscape.sty