2012/07/31 by A. M. Gainutdinov, N. Read, H. Saleur · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · Mathematics · #hep-th #cond-mat.stat-mech #math-ph #math.MP #math.QA
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s00220-015-2483-9
published as Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2016, Volume 341, Issue 1, pp 35-103 · 69 pp., 10 figs, v2: the paper has been substantially modified - new proofs, new refs, new App C with inductive limits construction, etc
arxiv created 2014/09/30 · arxiv updated 2016/05/17
We develop in this paper the principles of an associative algebraic approach to bulk logarithmic conformal field theories (LCFTs). We concentrate on the closed gl(1|1) spin-chain and its continuum limit - the c=-2 symplectic fermions theory - and rely on two technical companion papers, "Continuum limit and symmetries of the periodic gl(1|1) spin chain" [Nucl. Phys. B 871 (2013) 245-288] and "Bimodule structure in the periodic gl(1|1) spin chain" [Nucl. Phys. B 871 (2013) 289-329]. Our main result is that the algebra of local Hamiltonians, the Jones-Temperley-Lieb algebra JTLN, goes over in the continuum limit to a bigger algebra than the product of the left and right Virasoro algebras. This algebra, S - which we call interchiral, mixes the left and right moving sectors, and is generated, in the symplectic fermions case, by the additional field S(z,z)=Sabψa(z)ψb(z), with a symmetric form Sab and conformal weights (1,1). We discuss in details how the Hilbert space of the LCFT decomposes onto representations of this algebra, and how this decomposition is related with properties of the finite spin-chain. We show that there is a complete correspondence between algebraic properties of finite periodic spin chains and the continuum limit. An important technical aspect of our analysis involves the fundamental new observation that the action of JTLN in the gl(1|1) spin chain is in fact isomorphic to an enveloping algebra of a certain Lie algebra, itself a non semi-simple version of sp(N-2). The semi-simple part of JTLN is represented by Usp(N-2), providing a beautiful example of a classical Howe duality, for which we have a non semi-simple version in the full JTL image represented in the spin-chain. On the continuum side, simple modules over the interchiral algebra S are identified with "fundamental" representations of sp(∞).