2020/09/28 by Taha Ameen, Ameen, Taha, Kalle Kytölä +6
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Quantum many-body systems #Theoretical and Computational Physics #math-ph #math.MP
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2009.13624
v3: 50 pages, minor modifications and corrections
openalex publication_date 2020/09/28 · arxiv created 2021/11/19 · arxiv updated 2021/11/22 · openalex created_date 2022/07/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This is the first in a series of articles about recovering the full algebraic structure of a boundary conformal field theory (CFT) from the scaling limit of the critical Ising model in slit-strip geometry. Here, we introduce spaces of holomorphic functions in continuum domains as well as corresponding spaces of discrete holomorphic functions in lattice domains. We find distinguished sets of functions characterized by their singular behavior in the three infinite directions in the slit-strip domains. We prove convergence results of the distinguished discrete holomorphic functions to the continuum ones. In the subsequent articles, the discrete holomorphic functions will be used for the calculation of the Ising model fusion coefficients (as well as for the diagonalization of the Ising transfer matrix), and the convergence of the functions is used to prove the convergence of the fusion coefficients. It will also be shown that the vertex operator algebra of the boundary conformal field theory can be recovered from the limit of the fusion coefficients via geometric transformations involving the distinguished continuum functions.