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Lax matrix solution of c=1 Conformal Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-16 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

To a correlation function in a two-dimensional conformal field theory with the central charge c=1c=1, we associate a matrix differential equation Ψ=LΨ\Psi' = L \Psi, where the Lax matrix LL is a matrix square root of the energy-momentum tensor. Then local conformal symmetry implies that the differential equation is isomonodromic. This provides a justification for the recently observed relation between four-point conformal blocks and solutions of the Painlev\'e VI equation. This also provides a direct way to compute the three-point function of Runkel-Watts theory -- the common c1c\rightarrow 1 limit of Minimal Models and Liouville theory.

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@article{arxiv.1307.4865,
  title  = {Lax matrix solution of c=1 Conformal Field Theory},
  author = {Bertrand Eynard and Sylvain Ribault},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.4865},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

20 pages, v3: Corrected sign mistakes in eqs. (4.35), (4.37), (4.42), (4.45) and (4.52). Conclusions unchanged

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