Central charge counting free Boson, and free fermions
No time to write trivial mathematical details. Might update this with details in the future.
Recipe:
Consider first the Free boson first, apply a similar technique to Majorana, then get Dirac directly
- Recall:
- Two point function equations:
$G^{2} = \langle \phi(x) \phi(y) \rangle$
$ -g \partial_x^2 G^{(2)} (x,y) = \delta( x-y)$
$G^{2} = \langle \phi(x) \phi(y) \rangle = \frac{1}{4 pi g} ln^2( x-y)$
The energy-momentum tensor can be computed:
$T = g(\partial_\mu \phi \partial_nu \phi - \frac{1}{2} \eta_{\mu \nu} \partial_\rho \phi \partial^\rho \phi )$
OPE is calculated as
$T(z)T(w) = (2 \pi g)^2:\partial \phi(z) \partial \phi(z)::\partial \phi(w) \partial \phi(w):$
Read the central charge from the general form!
$T(z)T(w) = \frac{c/2}{ (z-w)^4} + \frac{2}{(z-w)^2} T(w) + \frac{\partial T(w)}{z-w} + . . $
Read the conformal dimension!
$T(z) \Phi(w, \bar(w)) = (\frac{h}{(z-w)^2} + \frac{\partial}{z -w}) \phi(w,\bar(w))$
For free fermion
- Write Majorana action
- Get Majorana field
- Write OPE of Majorana field
c = 1 for free boson
c = 1/2 for free fermion
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