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Infinite conformal symmetry of critical fluctuations in two dimensions

  • Landau Inst. for Theoretical Physics

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Abstract

We study the massless quantum field theories describing the critical points in two dimensional statistical systems. These theories are invariant with respect to the infinite dimensional group of conformal (analytic) transformations. It is shown that the local fields forming the operator algebra can be classified according to the irreducible representations of the Virasoro algebra. Exactly solvable theories associated with degenerate representations are analized. In these theories the anomalous dimensions are known exactly and the correlation functions satisfy the system of linear differential equations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)763-774
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Statistical Physics
Volume34
Issue number5-6
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1984

Keywords

  • conformal symmetry
  • Kac formula
  • operator algebra
  • Second order phase transitions
  • two-dimensional systems
  • Vivasoro algebra

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