The Brownian loop soup stress-energy tensor
Abstract
The Brownian loop soup (BLS) is a conformally invariant statistical ensemble of random loops in two dimensions characterized by an intensity . Recently, we constructed families of operators in the BLS and showed that they transform as conformal primary operators. In this paper we provide an explicit expression for the BLS stress-energy tensor and compute its operator product expansion with other operators. Our results are consistent with the conformal Ward identities and our previous result that the central charge is . In the case of domains with boundary we identify a boundary operator that has properties consistent with the boundary stress-energy tensor. We show that this operator generates local deformations of the boundary and that it is related to a boundary operator that induces a Brownian excursion starting or ending at its insertion point.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2112.00074,
title = {The Brownian loop soup stress-energy tensor},
author = {Federico Camia and Valentino F. Foit and Alberto Gandolfi and Matthew Kleban},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.00074},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
24 pages, 3 figures