Conformally covariant boundary correlation functions with a quantum group

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Abstract

Particular boundary correlation functions of conformal field theory are needed to answer some questions related to random conformally invariant curves known as Schramm-Loewner evolutions (SLE). In this article, we introduce a correspondence and establish its fundamental properties, which are used in the companion articles [JJK16, KP16] to explicitly solve two such problems. The correspondence associates Coulomb gas type integrals to vectors in a tensor product representation of a quantum group, a q-deformation of the Lie algebra sl2. We show that the desired properties of the functions are guaranteed by natural representation-theoretical properties of the vectors.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)55-118
Number of pages64
JournalJOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
Volume22
Issue number1
Early online date30 Aug 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

  • Conformal field theory
  • Partial differential equations
  • Quantum group
  • Schramm-Loewner evolution

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