The Brownian loop soup stress-energy tensor

Federico Camia, Valentino F. Foit*, Alberto Gandolfi, Matthew Kleban

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Abstract

The Brownian loop soup (BLS) is a conformally invariant statistical ensemble of random loops in two dimensions characterized by an intensity λ > 0. Recently, we constructed families of operators in the BLS and showed that they transform as conformal primary operators. In this paper we provide an explicit expression for the BLS stress-energy tensor and compute its operator product expansion with other operators. Our results are consistent with the conformal Ward identities and our previous result that the central charge is c = 2λ. In the case of domains with boundary we identify a boundary operator that has properties consistent with the boundary stress-energy tensor. We show that this operator generates local deformations of the boundary and that it is related to a boundary operator that induces a Brownian excursion starting or ending at its insertion point.

Original languageEnglish
Article number9
Pages (from-to)1-26
Number of pages26
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2022
Issue number11
Early online date2 Nov 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2022

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Keywords

  • Integrable Field Theories
  • Random Systems
  • Scale and Conformal Symmetries
  • Stochastic Processes

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