Mathematical Physics seminar: Generalised Gibbs ensemble and KdV charges in 2D CFTs

Seminar
  • Date and time: Thursday 30 May 2019, 4.15pm
  • Location: Topos, James College, Campus West, University of York (Map)
  • Admission: Free admission

Event details

2D CFTs have an infinite set of commuting conserved charges, known as the quantum KdV charges. There is a generalised Gibbs ensemble for these theories where we turn on chemical potentials for these charges. I will describe some partial results on calculating this partition function, both in the limit of large charges and perturbatively in the chemical potentials.