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High Energy Physics - Theory

Title: Coupled minimal models revisited

Abstract: We study coupled unitary Virasoro minimal models in the large rank ($m \rightarrow \infty$) limit. In large $m$ perturbation theory, we find two non-trivial IR fixed points which exhibit irrational coefficients in several anomalous dimensions and the central charge. For $N>4$ copies, we show that the IR theory breaks all possible currents that would otherwise enhance the Virasoro algebra, up to spin 10. This provides strong evidence that the IR fixed points are examples of compact, unitary, irrational CFTs with the minimal amount of chiral symmetry. We also analyze anomalous dimension matrices for a family of degenerate operators with increasing spin. These display further evidence of irrationality and begin to reveal the form of the leading quantum Regge trajectory.
Comments: 4+2 pages, 2 figures, 1 table; v2: matches published version
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
Journal reference: Phys.Rev.Lett. 130 (2023) 7, 071602
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.071602
Report number: DESY-22-191
Cite as: arXiv:2211.16503 [hep-th]
  (or arXiv:2211.16503v2 [hep-th] for this version)

Submission history

From: António Antunes [view email]
[v1] Tue, 29 Nov 2022 18:59:56 GMT (57kb,AD)
[v2] Sun, 19 Feb 2023 15:26:43 GMT (58kb,AD)

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