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Liouville theory and special coadjoint Virasoro orbits

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v1

Abstract

We describe the Hamiltonian reduction of the coajoint Kac-Moody orbits to the Virasoro coajoint orbits explicitly in terms of the Lagrangian approach for the Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten theory. While a relation of the coajoint Virasoro orbit Diff  S1/SL(2,R)Diff \; S^1 /SL(2,R) to the Liouville theory has been already studied we analyse the role of special coajoint Virasoro orbits Diff  S1/T~±,nDiff \; S^1/\tilde{T}_{\pm ,n} corresponding to stabilizers generated by the vector fields with double zeros. The orbits with stabilizers with single zeros do not appear in the model. We find an interpretation of zeros xix_i of the vector field of stabilizer T~±,n\tilde{T}_{\pm ,n} and additional parameters qiq_i, i=1,...,ni = 1,...,n, in terms of quantum mechanics for nn point particles on the circle. We argue that the special orbits are generated by insertions of "wrong sign" Liouville exponential into the path integral. The additional parmeters qiq_i are naturally interpreted as accessory parameters for the uniformization map. Summing up the contributions of the special Virasoro orbits we get the integrable sinh-Gordon type theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9311052,
  title  = {Liouville theory and special coadjoint Virasoro orbits},
  author = {A. Gorsky and A. Johansen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9311052},
  year   = {2015}
}

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preprint ITEP-67-1993,16 p.,Latex file