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We consider a generalization of the two-dimensional Liouville conformal field theory to any number of even dimensions. The theories consist of a log-correlated scalar field with a background $\mathcal{Q}$-curvature charge and an exponential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-07 Tom Levy , Yaron Oz

An exact mapping is established between the $c\geq25$ Liouville field theory (LFT) and the Gibbs measure statistics of a thermal particle in a 2D Gaussian Free Field plus a logarithmic confining potential. The probability distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-16 Xiangyu Cao , Pierre Le Doussal , Alberto Rosso , Raoul Santachiara

The conformal bootstrap hypothesis is a powerful idea in theoretical physics which has led to spectacular predictions in the context of critical phenomena. It postulates an explicit expression for the correlation functions of a conformal…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Colin Guillarmou , Antti Kupiainen , Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

Liouville field theory on a sphere is considered. We explicitly derive a differential equation for four-point correlation functions with one degenerate field $V_{-\frac{mb}{2}}$. We introduce and study also a class of four-point conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-17 V. A. Fateev , A. V. Litvinov , A. Neveu , E. Onofri

Based on our generalization of the Goulian-Li continuation in the power of the 2D cosmological term we construct the two and three-point correlation functions for Liouville exponentials with generic real coefficients. As a strong argument…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 H. Dorn , H. -J. Otto

Two-dimensional conformal field theory is a powerful tool to understand the geometry of surfaces. Here, we study Liouville conformal field theory in the classical (large central charge) limit, where it encodes the geometry of the moduli…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-04 Kale Colville , Sarah M. Harrison , Alexander Maloney , Keivan Namjou

An explicit construction for the monodromy of the Liouville conformal blocks in terms of Racah-Wigner coefficients of the quantum group U_q(sl(2,R)) is proposed. As a consequence, crossing-symmetry for four point functions is analytically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Benedicte Ponsot

We introduce spectral functions that capture the distribution of OPE coefficients and density of states in two-dimensional conformal field theories, and show that nontrivial upper and lower bounds on the spectral function can be obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Scott Collier , Petr Kravchuk , Ying-Hsuan Lin , Xi Yin

Introduction to two dimensional conformal field theory on open and unoriented surfaces. The construction is illustrated in detail on the example of SU(2) WZW models.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Yassen S. Stanev

Liouville Field Theory (LFT for short) is a two dimensional model of random surfaces, which is for instance involved in $2d$ string theory or in the description of the fluctuations of metrics in $2d$ Liouville quantum gravity. This is a…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Hubert Lacoin , Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

Liouville conformal field theory is considered with conformal boundary. There is a family of conformal boundary conditions parameterized by the boundary cosmological constant, so that observables depend on the dimensional ratios of boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Fateev , A. Zamolodchikov , Al. Zamolodchikov

The continuation of the Liouville conformal field theory to c<=1 is considered. The viability of an interpretation involving a timelike boson which is the conformal factor for two-dimensional asymptotically de Sitter geometries is examined.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Will McElgin

The symmetry algebra of $N=1$ Super-Liouville field theory in two dimensions is the infinite dimensional $N=1$ superconformal algebra, which allows one to prove, that correlation functions, containing degenerated fields obey some partial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Poghossian

We explore Liouville's theorem and the Strong Liouville Property (SLP) for harmonic functions on Riemannian cones and surfaces. Our approach recasts the classical Liouville property in terms of the growth of radial eigenfunctions (in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 John E. Bravo , Jean C. Cortissoz

The quantisation of the two-dimensional Liouville field theory is investigated using the path integral, on the sphere, in the large radius limit. The general form of the $N$-point functions of vertex operators is found and the three-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 L. O'Raifeartaigh , J. M. Pawlowski , V. V. Sreedhar

Liouville conformal field theory describes a random geometry that fluctuates around a deterministic one: the unique solution of the problem of finding, within a given conformal class, a Riemannian metric with prescribed scalar and geodesic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Baptiste Cerclé

N=1 super Liouville field theory is one of the simplest non-rational conformal field theories. It possesses various important extensions and interesting applications, e.g. to the AGT relation with 4D gauge theory or the construction of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-31 Volker Schomerus , Paulina Suchanek

Motivated by the supersymmetric extension of Liouville theory in the recent physics literature, we couple the standard Liouville functional with a spinor field term. The resulting functional is conformally invariant. We study geometric and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Juergen Jost , Guofang Wang , Chunqin Zhou

We compute the disk 1-point function in timelike Liouville theory. Using the Coulomb gas formalism and analytically continuing in the number of screening operators, we derive an explicit formula, which is shown to satisfy the correct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-13 Gaston Giribet , Bruno Sivilotti

Suggestions concerning the generalization of the geometric quantization to the case of nonlinear field theories are given. Results for the Liouville field theory are presented.

dg-ga · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Wlodzimierz Piechocki