The su(2)_{-1/2} WZW model and the beta-gamma system

Details The su(2)_{-1/2} WZW model and the beta-gamma system The su(2)_{-1/2} WZW model and the beta-gamma system

2002-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0207201v2

Nucl.Phys. B647 (2002) 363-403

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

33 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX, v2: minor revision, references added

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00905-7

The bosonic beta-gamma ghost system has long been used in formal constructions of conformal field theory. It has become important in its own right in the last few years, as a building block of field theory approaches to disordered systems, and as a simple representative -- due in part to its underlying su(2)_{-1/2} structure -- of non-unitary conformal field theories. We provide in this paper the first complete, physical, analysis of this beta-gamma system, and uncover a number of striking features. We show in particular that the spectrum involves an infinite number of fields with arbitrarily large negative dimensions. These fields have their origin in a twisted sector of the theory, and have a direct relationship with spectrally flowed representations in the underlying su(2)_{-1/2} theory. We discuss the spectral flow in the context of the operator algebra and fusion rules, and provide a re-interpretation of the modular invariant consistent with the spectrum.

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