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Spectrum Generating Affine Lie Algebras in Massive Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-22 v3

Abstract

We present a new application of affine Lie algebras to massive quantum field theory in 2 dimensions, by investigating the q1q\to 1 limit of the q-deformed affine sl(2)^\hat{sl(2)} symmetry of the sine-Gordon theory, this limit occuring at the free fermion point. We describe how radial quantization leads to a quasi-chiral factorization of the space of fields. The conserved charges which generate the affine Lie algebra split into two independent affine algebras on this factorized space, each with level 1 in the anti-periodic sector. The space of fields in the anti-periodic sector can be organized using level-11 highest weight representations, if one supplements the \slh\slh algebra with the usual local integrals of motion. Using the integrals of motion, a momentum space bosonization involving vertex operators is formulated. This leads to a new way of computing form-factors, as vacuum expectation values in momentum space.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9305110,
  title  = {Spectrum Generating Affine Lie Algebras in Massive Field Theory},
  author = {Andre LeClair},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9305110},
  year   = {2009}
}

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49 pages, CLNS 93/1220