Boundary operators in the Brownian loop soup
A bstract We obtain infinitely many boundary operators in the Brownian loop soup in the subcritical phase by analyzing the conformal block expansion of the two-point function that computes the probability of having two marked points on the upper half-plane being separated by Brownian loops. The resulting boundary operators are primary operators in a 2D CFT with central charge c ≤ 1 and have conformal dimensions that are non-negative integers. By comparing the above-mentioned conformal block expansion with probabilities in the Brownian loop soup, we provide a physical interpretation of the boundary operators of even dimensions as operators that insert multiple outer boundaries of Brownian loops at points on the real axis.
Authors
- Federico Camia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3510-8535)
- Rongvoram Nivesvivat (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0852-6990)
Institutions
- New York University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Published
- 2026-04-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04(2026)100
- Primary Topic
- Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics