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The Virasoro structure and the scattering matrix for Liouville conformal field theory

Guillaume Baverez, Colin Guillarmou, Antti Kupiainen, Rémi Rhodes, Vincent Vargas

6/4/22 Published in : arXiv:2204.02745

In this work, we construct a representation of the Virasoro algebra in the canonical Hilbert space associated to Liouville conformal field theory. The study of the Virasoro operators is performed through the introduction of a new family of Markovian dynamics associated to holomorphic vector fields defined in the disk. As an output, we show that the Hamiltonian of Liouville conformal field theory can be diagonalized through the action of the Virasoro algebra. This enables to show that the scattering matrix of the theory is diagonal and that the family of the so-called primary fields (which are eigenvectors of the Hamiltonian) admits an analytic extension to the whole complex plane, as conjectured in the physics literature.

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