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The Brownian loop soup stress-energy tensor

Mathematical Physics 2022-11-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Probability

Abstract

The Brownian loop soup (BLS) is a conformally invariant statistical ensemble of random loops in two dimensions characterized by an intensity λ>0\lambda>0. Recently, we constructed families of operators in the BLS and showed that they transform as conformal primary operators. In this paper we provide an explicit expression for the BLS stress-energy tensor and compute its operator product expansion with other operators. Our results are consistent with the conformal Ward identities and our previous result that the central charge is c=2λc = 2 \lambda. In the case of domains with boundary we identify a boundary operator that has properties consistent with the boundary stress-energy tensor. We show that this operator generates local deformations of the boundary and that it is related to a boundary operator that induces a Brownian excursion starting or ending at its insertion point.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2112.00074,
  title  = {The Brownian loop soup stress-energy tensor},
  author = {Federico Camia and Valentino F. Foit and Alberto Gandolfi and Matthew Kleban},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.00074},
  year   = {2022}
}

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24 pages, 3 figures

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