Published June 10, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

S-duality and modular transformation as a non-perturbative deformation of the ordinary pq-duality

  • 1. NHETC and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University,Piscataway, NJ 08855-0849 (United States)
  • 2. ITEP,Bol. Cheremushkinskaya, Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 3. Theory Department, Lebedev Physics Institute,Leninsky prospekt, Moscow (Russian Federation)

Description

A recent claim that the S-duality between 4d SUSY gauge theories, which is AGT related to the modular transformations of 2d conformal blocks, is no more than an ordinary Fourier transform at the perturbative level, is further traced down to the commutation relation [P-circumflex,Q-circumflex]=−iℏ between the check-operator monodromies of the exponential resolvent operator in the underlying Dotsenko-Fateev matrix models and β-ensembles. To this end, we treat the conformal blocks as eigenfunctions of the monodromy check operators, what is especially simple in the case of one-point toric block. The kernel of the modular transformation is then defined as the intertwiner of the two monodromies, and can be obtained straightforwardly, even when the eigenfunction interpretation of the blocks themselves is technically tedious. In this way, we provide an elementary derivation of the old expression for the modular kernel for the one-point toric conformal block

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2014)050; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/2786

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2014
Journal Issue
06
Journal Page Range
p. 50
ISSN
1029-8479

INIS

Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
48016774
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; DUALITY; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GAUGE INVARIANCE; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SUPERSYMMETRY
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; SYMMETRY; TRANSFORMATIONS

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Copyright
Copyright (c) OPEN ACCESS, © The Authors
Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP06(2014)050; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:2786
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)