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Research Report MRR96-031

Integrable quantum field theories in finite volume: excited state energies

Vladimir V. Bazhanov, Sergei L. Lukyanov and Alexander B. Zamolodchikov

Abstract: We develop a method of computing the excited state energies in Integrable Quantum Field Theories (IQFT) in finite geometry, with spatial coordinate compactified on a circle of circumference $R$. The IQFT ``commuting transfer-matrices'' introduced in\ \BLZ\ for Conformal Field Theories (CFT) are generalized to non-conformal IQFT obtained by perturbing CFT with the operator $\Phi_{1,3}$. We study the models in which the fusion relations for these ``transfer-matrices'' truncate and provide closed integral equations which generalize the equations of Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz to excited states. The explicit calculations are done for the first excited state in the ``Scaling Lee-Yang Model''.


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