CFTs, and the (quantum) geometry of integrable systems.

CFTs, and the (quantum) geometry of integrable systems.

noindent (In collaboration with R. Belliard, T. Kimura, S. Ribault.) par It has been realized recently that the conformal block of 4 point function in Liouville CFT is related to the Tau function of the Painlevé 6 integrable system. par Here we propose a general construction: starting from a very general integrable system (a Hitchin system: the moduli space of flat G-connections over a Riemann surface, with G an arbitrary semi-simple Lie group), we construct amplitudes, and we show that these amplitudes satisfy all the axioms of a CFT: they satisfy OPEs, Ward identities and crossing symmetry. Ward identities come from the flatness of the connection. par The construction is very geometrical, by defining a notion of “quantum spectral curve” attached to a flat connection, defining cycles and forms on it and showing that they satisfy Seiberg-Witten relations, related to crossing symmetry. par So this link between CFTs and integrable systems unearths a new and beautiful quantum geometry.

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Date

13 April 2015
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11h00 – 11h00

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Salle Claude Itzykson, Bât. 774
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