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The Logarithmic Conformal Field Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v2

Abstract

We study the correlation functions of logarithmic conformal field theories. First, assuming conformal invariance, we explicitly calculate two-- and three-- point functions. This calculation is done for the general case of more than one logarithmic field in a block, and more than one set of logarithmic fields. Then we show that one can regard the logarithmic field as a formal derivative of the ordinary field with respect to its conformal weight. This enables one to calculate any nn-- point function containing the logarithmic field in terms of ordinary nn--point functions. At last, we calculate the operator product expansion (OPE) coefficients of a logarithmic conformal field theory, and show that these can be obtained from the corresponding coefficients of ordinary conformal theory by a simple derivation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9610168,
  title  = {The Logarithmic Conformal Field Theories},
  author = {M. R. Rahimi Tabar and A. Aghamohammadi and M. Khorrami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9610168},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

17 pages ,latex , some minor changes, to appear in Nucl. Phys. B

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