期刊
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2011)071
关键词
Conformal and W Symmetry; Tachyon Condensation; 2D Gravity; Chern-Simons Theories
资金
- NSF [PHY-0969448, PHY-0756174]
- Stanford Graduate Fellowship
- Howrey Term Endowment Fund
- Mellam Family foundation
- Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [969448] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Correlation functions in Liouville theory are meromorphic functions of the Liouville momenta, as is shown explicitly by the DOZZ formula for the three-point function on S-2. In a certain physical region, where a real classical solution exists, the semiclassical limit of the DOZZ formula is known to agree with what one would expect from the action of the classical solution. In this paper, we ask what happens outside of this physical region. Perhaps surprisingly we find that, while in some range of the Liouville momenta the semiclassical limit is associated to complex saddle points, in general Liouville's equations do not have enough complex-valued solutions to account for the semiclassical behavior. For a full picture, we either must include solutions of Liouville's equations in which the Liouville field is multivalued (as well as being complex-valued) , or else we can reformulate Liouville theory as a Chern-Simons theory in three dimensions, in which the requisite solutions exist in a more conventional sense. We also study the case of timelike Liouville theory, where we show that a proposal of Al. B. Zamolodchikov for the exact three-point function on S-2 can be computed by the origina lLiouville path integral evaluated on a new integration cycle.
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