Thermal Correlation Functions of KdV Charges in 2D CFT
20 Nov 2018
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Maloney Alexander
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Ng Gim Seng
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Ross Simon F.
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Tsiares Ioannis
Two dimensional CFTs have an infinite set of commuting conserved charges,
known as the quantum KdV charges, built out of the stress tensor. We compute
the thermal correlation functions of the these KdV charges on a circle...We show
that these correlation functions are given by quasi-modular differential
operators acting on the torus partition function. We determine their modular
transformation properties, give explicit expressions in a number of cases, and
give a general form which determines an arbitrary correlation function up to a
finite number of functions of the central charge. We show that these modular
differential operators annihilate the characters of the (2m+1,2) family of
non-unitary minimal models. We also show that the distribution of KdV charges
becomes sharply peaked at large level.(read more)