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Spectrum of quantum KdV hierarchy in the semiclassical limit

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-01-02 v1

Abstract

We employ semiclassical quantization to calculate spectrum of quantum KdV charges in the limit of large central charge cc. Classically, KdV charges Q2n1Q_{2n-1} generate completely integrable dynamics on the co-adjoint orbit of the Virasoro algebra. They can be expressed in terms of action variables IkI_k, e.g.~as a power series expansion. Quantum-mechanically this series becomes the expansion in 1/c1/c, while action variables become integer-valued quantum numbers nin_i. Crucially, classical expression, which is homogeneous in IkI_k, acquires quantum corrections that include terms of subleading powers in nkn_k. At first two non-trivial orders in 1/c1/c expansion these ``quantum'' terms can be fixed from the analytic form of Q2n1Q_{2n-1} acting on the primary states. In this way we find explicit expression for the spectrum of Q2n1Q_{2n-1} up to first three orders in 1/c1/c expansion. We apply this result to study thermal expectation values of Q2n1Q_{2n-1} and free energy of the KdV Generalized Gibbs Ensemble.

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@article{arxiv.2208.01062,
  title  = {Spectrum of quantum KdV hierarchy in the semiclassical limit},
  author = {Anatoly Dymarsky and Ashish Kakkar and Kirill Pavlenko and Sotaro Sugishita},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.01062},
  year   = {2023}
}