RECORD
Liouville theory without an action
High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 26 Jan 2006
abstract compiled · 2026-09-23 · no language-model review
The authors' main claim Under certain assumptions, it provides the special structure constants that were previously computed perturbatively and allows to solve the theory without using the Liouville interaction.
The compiled record
The paper's own sentences, arranged. Each label is drawn from a closed vocabulary; the number beside it is the probability the classifier gave that label. Numbers in the tables are the authors', checked by code. No sentence in this record was written by a model.
Open the compiled record
The abstract, sentence by sentence
We show that the crossing symmetry of the four-point function in the Liouville conformal field theory on the sphere contains more information than what was hitherto considered. Under certain assumptions, it provides the special structure constants that were previously computed perturbatively and allows to solve the theory without using the Liouville interaction.
background contribution method result interpretation main claim
| # | sentence | role | the authors' own work | states the main conclusion | strength |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| s0 | We show that the crossing symmetry of the four-point function in the Liouville conformal field theory on the sphere contains more information than what was hitherto considered. | result 0.59 | 0.93 | 0.55 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | Under certain assumptions, it provides the special structure constants that were previously computed perturbatively and allows to solve the theory without using the Liouville interaction. | result 0.87 | 0.82 | 0.61 | asserted 0.68 |
What was examined, and what was not
- arXiv listing abstract v2
- full text
- figures and tables
- references and citing sentences
- relations to other papers
- P abstract
- S sections
- T body sentences
- C citations
- R cross-paper relations
The paper
Original abstract
We show that the crossing symmetry of the four-point function in the Liouville conformal field theory on the sphere contains more information than what was hitherto considered. Under certain assumptions, it provides the special structure constants that were previously computed perturbatively and allows to solve the theory without using the Liouville interaction.
Human review
References
How the literature uses it
5 arXiv papers cite this in 10 sentences
Papers citing it · 8 sentences without a confident label
Cites it as support 1 paper
-
Ultimately, this claim is justified by exact results obtained using the conformal bootstrap [ref] and agrees with the KPZ critical exponents [ref] computed using matrix models [ref] , light-cone quantization [ref] , and canonical quantization [ref] .
Quantum Cosmology Near Two Dimensions · Renormalization of the Cosmological Constant Operator · 0.96
Cites it as background 1 paper
-
The spacelike structure constants $C(a_1 , a_2, a_3)$ are given by the Dorn–Otto–Zamolodchikov–Zamolodchikov (DOZZ) formula [ref] (see [ref] for more discussions).
Quantum Gravity from Timelike Liouville theory · Conformal bootstrap for Liouville · 0.83
Discussion
Know something about this paper? Leave a comment, or highlight any passage above to comment on it.