First Column Boundary Operator Product Expansion Coefficients

2007/12/20 by Jacob J. H. Simmons, Simmons, Jacob J. H., Peter Kleban +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #cond-mat.stat-mech

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0712.3575

9 pages, no figures, v2 minor corrections

arxiv created 2008/05/16 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We calculate boundary operator product expansion coefficients for boundary operators in the first column of the Kac table in conformal field theories. For c=0 we give closed form expressions for all such coefficients. Then we generalize to the augmented minimal models, giving explicit expressions for coefficients valid when ϕ_1,2 mediates a change from fixed to free boundary conditions. These quantities are determined by computing an arbitrary four-point correlation function of first column operators. Our calculation first determines the appropriate (non-logarithmic) conformal blocks by using standard null-vector methods. The behavior of these blocks under crossing symmetry then provides a general closed form expression for the desired coefficients, as a product of ratios of gamma functions. This calculation was inspired by the need for several of these coefficients in certain correlation function formulas for critical two-dimensional percolation and the augmented q=2 and q=3 state critical Potts models.

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