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Wind on the boundary for the Abelian sandpile model

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We continue our investigation of the two-dimensional Abelian sandpile model in terms of a logarithmic conformal field theory with central charge c=-2, by introducing two new boundary conditions. These have two unusual features: they carry an intrinsic orientation, and, more strangely, they cannot be imposed uniformly on a whole boundary (like the edge of a cylinder). They lead to seven new boundary condition changing fields, some of them being in highest weight representations (weights -1/8, 0 and 3/8), some others belonging to indecomposable representations with rank 2 Jordan cells (lowest weights 0 and 1). Their fusion algebra appears to be in full agreement with the fusion rules conjectured by Gaberdiel and Kausch.

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@article{arxiv.0707.3766,
  title  = {Wind on the boundary for the Abelian sandpile model},
  author = {Philippe Ruelle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.3766},
  year   = {2009}
}

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26 pages, 4 figures

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