Algebraic structures and eigenstates for integrable collective field theories

Mar 10, 1992
27 pages
Published in:
  • Commun.Math.Phys. 150 (1992) 149-166
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Report number:
  • BROWN-HEP-847

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Abstract:
Conditions for the construction of polynomial eigen--operators for the Hamiltonian of collective string field theories are explored. Such eigen--operators arise for only one monomial potential v(x)=μx 2v(x) = \mu x~2 in the collective field theory. They form a ww_{\infty}--algebra isomorphic to the algebra of vertex operators in 2d gravity. Polynomial potentials of orders only strictly larger or smaller than 2 have no non--zero--energy polynomial eigen--operators. This analysis leads us to consider a particular potential v(x)=μx 2+g/x 2v(x)= \mu x~2 + g/x~2. A Lie algebra of polynomial eigen--operators is then constructed for this potential. It is a symmetric 2--index Lie algebra, also represented as a sub--algebra of U(s(2)).U (s\ell (2)).
  • field theory: string
  • field theory: collective phenomena
  • Hamiltonian formalism
  • matrix model
  • potential
  • operator: algebra