Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1993-04-13
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A8 (1993) 5717-5750
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
39 pages, 7 uuencoded figures, BUHEP-93-5, USC-93/003, LPM-93-07
Scientific paper
The massless flow between successive minimal models of conformal field theory is related to a flow within the sine-Gordon model when the coefficient of the cosine potential is imaginary. This flow is studied, partly numerically, from three different points of view. First we work out the expansion close to the Kosterlitz-Thouless point, and obtain roaming behavior, with the central charge going up and down in between the UV and IR values of $c=1$. Next we analytically continue the Casimir energy of the massive flow (i.e. with real cosine term). Finally we consider the lattice regularization provided by the O(n) model in which massive and massless flows correspond to high- and low-temperature phases. A detailed discussion of the case $n=0$ is then given using the underlying N=2 supersymmetry, which is spontaneously broken in the low-temperature phase. The ``index'' $\tr F(-1)^F$ follows from the Painleve III differential equation, and is shown to have simple poles in this phase. These poles are interpreted as occuring from level crossing (one-dimensional phase transitions for polymers). As an application, new exact results for the connectivity constants of polymer graphs on cylinders are obtained.
Fendley Paul
Saleur Herbert
Zamolodchikov Al. B.
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