English

Reflection factors and exact g-functions for purely elastic scattering theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We discuss reflection factors for purely elastic scattering theories and relate them to perturbations of specific conformal boundary conditions, using recent results on exact off-critical g-functions. For the non-unitary cases, we support our conjectures using a relationship with quantum group reductions of the sine-Gordon model. Our results imply the existence of a variety of new flows between conformal boundary conditions, some of them driven by boundary-changing operators.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0512337,
  title  = {Reflection factors and exact g-functions for purely elastic scattering theories},
  author = {Patrick Dorey and Anna Lishman and Chaiho Rim and Roberto Tateo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0512337},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

45 pages, 7 figures. v2: minor typos corrected, 3 new references and some further discussion of the massless boundary flows included