Abstract
Studies of Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) in two-dimensional CFTs call for calculation of the expectation values of local operators in highly excited energy eigenstates. This can be done efficiently by representing zero modes of these operators in terms of the Virasoro algebra generators. In this paper we present a pedagogical introduction explaining how this calculation can be performed analytically or using computer algebra. We illustrate the computation of zero modes by a number of examples and list explicit expressions for all local operators from the vacuum family with the dimension of less or equal than eight. Finally, we derive an explicit expression for the quantum KdV generator Q7 in terms of the Virasoro algebra generators. The obtained results can be used for quantitative studies of ETH at finite value of central charge.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 172 |
| Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
| Volume | 2020 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 1 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2020, The Author(s).
Funding
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Creative Commons Attribution License | |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | |
| Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 1720374 |
Keywords
- Conformal Field Theory
- Conformal and W Symmetry
- Integrable Field The- ories
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics