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Classical Conformal Blocks and Painleve VI

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-17 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the classical c\to \infty limit of the Virasoro conformal blocks. We point out that the classical limit of the simplest nontrivial null-vector decoupling equation on a sphere leads to the Painleve VI equation. This gives the explicit representation of generic four-point classical conformal block in terms of the regularized action evaluated on certain solution of the Painleve VI equation. As a simple consequence, the monodromy problem of the Heun equation is related to the connection problem for the Painleve VI.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1309.4700,
  title  = {Classical Conformal Blocks and Painleve VI},
  author = {Alexey Litvinov and Sergei Lukyanov and Nikita Nekrasov and Alexander Zamolodchikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.4700},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

19 pages, 5 figures; references added

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