Martinec's annulus bootstrap conjecture for boundary Liouville CFT

Consider an annulus represented as a cylinder of length πτ\pi\tau and radius 11. Set q=e2πτq=e^{-2\pi\tau}, and let ZAnnulus\mathcal{Z}_{\mathrm{Annulus}} denote the no-insertion-point partition function of Liouville conformal field theory on this annulus, defined probabilistically in analogy with the one-point function. Let QQ be the Liouville background charge, let UFZZU_{\mathrm{FZZ}} denote the FZZ boundary wave function, and let μ\mu and μB\mu_B be the bulk and boundary cosmological constants. Then Martinec's annulus bootstrap conjecture. the partition function should satisfy

ZAnnulus=CUFZZ(Q+iP)UFZZ(QiP)qP2124n1(1qn)dP.\mathcal{Z}_{\mathrm{Annulus}}=\int_{\mathcal{C}}U_{\mathrm{FZZ}}(Q+iP)U_{\mathrm{FZZ}}(Q-iP)q^{P^2-\frac{1}{24}}\prod_{n\geq 1}(1-q^n)\,dP.

The two boundary components may have different values of μB\mu_B, in which case the two FZZ wave functions are evaluated using the respective boundary cosmological constants; the bulk parameter μ\mu is the same in the partition function and both wave functions. The contour C\mathcal{C} is a suitable deformation of R\mathbb{R} avoiding the pole at P=0P=0. This is a proposed conformal-bootstrap formula for the annulus partition function in Liouville CFT; its validity is presented as a conjecture, with no resolution supplied here.

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Morris Ang, Guillaume Remy and Xin Sun, “FZZ formula of boundary Liouville CFT via conformal welding”, arXiv:2104.09478 (2022).

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