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Complete Minimal Form Factors for Irrelevant Deformations of Integrable Quantum Field Theory

Sailis, F., Castro-Alvaredo, O. A. ORCID: 0000-0003-1876-7341 & Negro, S. (2025). Complete Minimal Form Factors for Irrelevant Deformations of Integrable Quantum Field Theory. Nuclear Physics B, 1019, article number 117131. doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2025.117131

Abstract

In this paper, we present a method to compute the minimal form factors (MFFs) of diagonal integrable field theories perturbed by generalized perturbations. Building on existing results by the same authors, these MFFs are constructed in such a way as not to allow for any free parameters, an issue that plagued previous solutions. The MFFs are derived from a generalization of the standard integral representation which has been used for UV-complete theories since the birth of the form factor bootstrap program. By UV-complete we mean theories whose short-distance/high-energy limit is a local conformal field theory. Their asymptotics is characterized by exponential decay at large rapidities. By computing higher particle form factors, we find that any natural higher-particle solutions involve the cancellation of parts of the newly found MFF. We conclude that the assumption that the form factor equations, particularly the kinematic residue equation, remain unchanged in the presence of perturbations, is too strong. There is a trade-off between having MFFs satisfying desirable analyticity and asymptotic properties and finding analytic solutions to the form factor equations, which is likely solved by nontrivial changes to the form factor equations, especially those where locality or semilocality of fields are essential assumptions.

Publication Type: Article
Additional Information: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Publisher Keywords: Integrable quantum field theory, Irrelevant perturbations, Form factors
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
Departments: School of Science & Technology
School of Science & Technology > Department of Mathematics
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