English

Torus conformal blocks and Casimir equations in the necklace channel

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-10-20 v3

Abstract

We consider the conformal block decomposition in arbitrary exchange channels of a two-dimensional conformal field theory on a torus. The channels are described by diagrams built of a closed loop with external legs (a necklace sub-diagram) and trivalent vertices forming trivalent trees attached to the necklace. Then, the nn-point torus conformal block in any channel can be obtained by acting with a number of OPE operators on the kk-point torus block in the necklace channel at k=1,...,nk=1,...,n. Focusing on the necklace channel, we go to the large-cc regime, where the Virasoro algebra truncates to the sl(2,R)sl(2, \mathbb{R}) subalgebra, and obtain the system of the Casimir equations for the respective kk-point global conformal block. In the plane limit, when the torus modular parameter q0q\to 0, we explicitly find the Casimir equations on a plane which define the (k+2)(k+2)-point global conformal block in the comb channel. Finally, we formulate the general scheme to find Casimir equations for global torus blocks in arbitrary channels.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2205.05038,
  title  = {Torus conformal blocks and Casimir equations in the necklace channel},
  author = {K. B. Alkalaev and Semyon Mandrygin and Mikhail Pavlov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.05038},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

27 pages, v2: a new section on Casimir equations in general torus channels, a new appendix containing explicit expressions for lower-point global torus blocks, minor edits, typos corrected, more refs added; v3: extended discussion of the conformal block decomposition in torus CFT2, more clarifying comments in the introduction, notations improved, typos corrected, journal version