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The imaginary Toda field theory

Mathematical Physics 2019-02-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP

Abstract

We consider the two-dimensional sln\mathfrak{sl}_n quantum Toda field theory with an imaginary background charge. This conformal field theory has a higher spin symmetry (WnW_n algebra), a central charge cn1c \leq n-1 and a continuous spectrum. Using the conformal bootstrap, we compute structure constants involving two arbitrary scalar fields and a semi-degenerate field of Wyllard type. The solution obtained is not the analytic continuation of the usual Toda three-point function. Non-scalar primary fields and their three-point functions are also discussed. Non-scalar primary fields are classified by conjugacy classes of the permutation group Sn\mathfrak{S}_n, and their structure constants are computed explicitly, up to an overall factor.

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@article{arxiv.1809.05568,
  title  = {The imaginary Toda field theory},
  author = {Thomas Dupic and Benoît Estienne and Yacine Ikhlef},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.05568},
  year   = {2019}
}

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25 pages, 1 figure

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