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$\lambda$-deformations in the upper-half plane

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-05-27 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We formulate λ\lambda-deformed σ\sigma-models as QFTs in the upper-half plane. For different boundary conditions we compute correlation functions of currents and primary operators, exactly in the deformation parameter λ\lambda and for large values of the level kk of the underlying WZW model. To perform our computations we use either conformal perturbation theory in association with Cardy's doubling trick, as well as meromorphicity arguments and a non-perturbative symmetry in the parameter space (λ,k)(\lambda,k), or standard QFT techniques based on the free field expansion of the σ\sigma-model action, with the free fields obeying appropriate boundary conditions. Both methods have their own advantages yielding consistent and rich, compared to those in the absence of a boundary, complementary results. We pay particular attention, albeit not exclusively, to integrability preserving boundary conditions.

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@article{arxiv.2103.08650,
  title  = {$\lambda$-deformations in the upper-half plane},
  author = {Konstantinos Sfetsos and Konstantinos Siampos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.08650},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

v1: 45 pages + 24 pages appendices, v2: NPB version

R2 v1 2026-06-24T00:11:59.640Z