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Super-KMS functionals for graded-local conformal nets

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>08/2015
<mark>Journal</mark>Annales Henri Poincaré
Issue number8
Volume16
Number of pages38
Pages (from-to)1899–1936
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date19/09/14
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Motivated by a few preceding papers and a question of R. Longo, we introduce super-KMS functionals for graded translation-covariant nets over R with superderivations, roughly speaking as a certain supersymmetric modification of classical KMS states on translation-covariant nets over R, fundamental objects in chiral algebraic quantum field theory. Although we are able to make a few statements concerning their general structure, most properties will be studied in the setting of specific graded-local (super-) conformal models. In particular, we provide a constructive existence and partial uniqueness proof of super-KMS functionals for the supersymmetric free field, for certain subnets, and for the super-Virasoro net with central charge c ≥ 3/2. Moreover, as a separate result, we classify bounded super-KMS functionals for graded-local conformal nets over S^1 with respect to rotations.