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Bulk flows in Virasoro minimal models with boundaries

Stefan Fredenhagen1, Matthias R Gaberdiel2 and Cornelius Schmidt-Colinet2

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The behaviour of boundary conditions under relevant bulk perturbations is studied for the Virasoro minimal models. In particular, we consider the bulk deformation by the least relevant bulk field which interpolates between the mth and (m − 1)th unitary minimal model. In the presence of a boundary, this bulk flow induces an RG flow on the boundary, which ensures that the resulting boundary condition is conformal in the (m − 1)th model. By combining perturbative RG techniques with insights from defects and results about non-perturbative boundary flows, we determine the endpoint of the flow, i.e. the boundary condition to which an arbitrary boundary condition of the mth theory flows to.


PACS

11.10.Hi Renormalization group evolution of parameters

11.25.Hf Conformal field theory, algebraic structures

11.25.Db Properties of perturbation theory

MSC

81R10 Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, W-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (See also 17B65, 17B67, 22E65, 22E67, 22E70)

81T40 Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc.

17B68 Virasoro and related algebras

81T17 Renormalization group methods

81T15 Perturbative methods of renormalization

Subjects

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 49 (11 December 2009)

Received 7 September 2009, in final form 26 October 2009

Published 25 November 2009



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