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Virasoro Constraints and Flavor-Topology Duality in QCD

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We derive Virasoro constraints for the zero momentum part of the QCD-like partition functions in the sector of topological charge ν\nu. The constraints depend on the topological charge only through the combination Nf+βν/2N_f +\beta\nu/2 where the value of the Dyson index β\beta is determined by the reality type of the fermions. This duality between flavor and topology is inherited by the small-mass expansion of the partition function and {\em all} spectral sum-rules of inverse powers of the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator. For the special case β=2\beta=2 but arbitrary topological charge the Virasoro constraints are solved uniquely by a Generalized Kontsevich Model with potential V(X)=1/X{\cal V}(X) = 1/X.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0101035,
  title  = {Virasoro Constraints and Flavor-Topology Duality in QCD},
  author = {D. Dalmazi and J. J. M. Verbaarschot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0101035},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

18 pages, minor corrections