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Irregular Liouville Correlators and Connection Formulae for Heun Functions

Giulio Bonelli, Cristoforo Iossa, Daniel Panea Lichtig, Alessandro Tanzini

2022Communications in Mathematical Physics96 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Abstract We perform a detailed study of a class of irregular correlators in Liouville Conformal Field Theory, of the related Virasoro conformal blocks with irregular singularities and of their connection formulae. Upon considering their semi-classical limit, we provide explicit expressions of the connection matrices for the Heun function and a class of its confluences. Their calculation is reduced to concrete combinatorial formulae from conformal block expansions.

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Connection (principal bundle)Conformal mapConformal field theoryGravitational singularityMathematicsClass (philosophy)Limit (mathematics)Pure mathematicsField (mathematics)Explicit formulaeAiry functionMathematical physicsMathematical analysisGeometryComputer scienceArtificial intelligenceBlack Holes and Theoretical PhysicsCosmology and Gravitation TheoriesNonlinear Waves and Solitons