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Kac boundary conditions of the logarithmic minimal models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-23 v1

Abstract

We develop further the implementation and analysis of Kac boundary conditions in the general logarithmic minimal models LM(p,p){\cal LM}(p,p') with 1p<p1\le p<p' and p,pp,p' coprime. Working in a strip geometry, we consider the (r,s)(r,s) boundary conditions, which are organized into infinitely extended Kac tables labeled by r,s=1,2,3,...r,s=1,2,3,.... They are conjugate to Virasoro Kac representations with conformal dimensions Δr,s\Delta_{r,s} given by the usual Kac formula. On a finite strip of width NN, built from a square lattice, the associated integrable boundary conditions are constructed by acting on the vacuum (1,1)(1,1) boundary with an ss-type seam of width s1s-1 columns and an rr-type seam of width ρ1\rho-1 columns. The rr-type seam contains an arbitrary boundary field ξ\xi. The usual fusion construction of the rr-type seam relies on the existence of Wenzl-Jones projectors restricting its application to rρ<pr\le\rho<p'. This limitation was recently removed by Pearce, Rasmussen and Villani who further conjectured that the conformal boundary conditions labeled by rr are realized, in particular, for ρ=ρ(r)=rpp\rho=\rho(r)=\lfloor \frac{rp'}{p}\rfloor. In this paper, we confirm this conjecture by performing extensive numerics on the commuting double row transfer matrices and their associated quantum Hamiltonian chains. Letting [x][x] denote the fractional part, we fix the boundary field to the specialized values ξ=π2\xi=\frac{\pi}{2} if [ρp]=0[\frac{\rho}{p'}]=0 and ξ=[ρpp]π2\xi=[\frac{\rho p}{p'}]\frac{\pi}{2} otherwise. For these boundary conditions, we obtain the Kac conformal weights Δr,s\Delta_{r,s} by numerically extrapolating the finite-size corrections to the lowest eigenvalue of the quantum Hamiltonians out to sizes N32ρsN\le 32-\rho-s. Additionally, by solving local inversion relations, we obtain general analytic expressions for the boundary free energies allowing for more accurate estimates of the conformal data.

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@article{arxiv.1410.0103,
  title  = {Kac boundary conditions of the logarithmic minimal models},
  author = {Paul A. Pearce and Elena Tartaglia and Romain Couvreur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.0103},
  year   = {2015}
}