Non-unitarity in quantum affine Toda theory and perturbed conformal field theory

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 547, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 538-568

  Takács, Gábor ^a   Watts, Gérard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affine Toda field theory; Factorised scattering theory; Finite size effects; Perturbed conformal field theory; S matrix unitarity; Two dimensional integrable field theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033577653     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00100-5     Document Type: Article

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