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A note on the identity module in $c=0$ CFTs

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-03-23 v3 Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

It has long been understood that non-trivial Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) with vanishing central charge (c=0c=0) are logarithmic. So far however, the structure of the identity module -- the (left and right) Virasoro descendants of the identity field -- had not been elucidated beyond the stress-energy tensor TT and its logarithmic partner tt (the solution of the "c0c\to 0 catastrophe"). In this paper, we determine this structure together with the associated OPE of primary fields up to level h=hˉ=2h=\bar{h}=2 for polymers and percolation CFTs. This is done by taking the c0c\to 0 limit of O(n)O(n) and Potts models and combining recent results from the bootstrap with arguments based on conformal invariance and self-duality. We find that the structure contains a rank-3 Jordan cell involving the field TTˉT\bar{T}, and is identical for polymers and percolation. It is characterized in part by the common value of a non-chiral logarithmic coupling a0=2548a_0=-{25\over 48}.

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@article{arxiv.2109.05050,
  title  = {A note on the identity module in $c=0$ CFTs},
  author = {Yifei He and Hubert Saleur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.05050},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

24 pages. v2: comments added, typos corrected. v3: comments in footnote 7 improved

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