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 language | English |
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| Article number | 9 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-26 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
| Volume | 2022 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| Early online date | 2 Nov 2022 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2022 |
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Keywords
- Integrable Field Theories
- Random Systems
- Scale and Conformal Symmetries
- Stochastic Processes
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