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Peter Mattsson

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Integrable Quantum Field Theories, in the Bulk and with a Boundary

This thesis considers massive field theories in 1+1 dimensions known as affine Toda quantum field theories. We first consider the boundary sine-Gordon model, deriving a complete picture of the boundary bound state structure for general integrable boundary conditions, and then more general ATFTs in the bulk, discovering a "generalised bootstrap" equation which explicitly encodes the Lie algebra into the S-matrix. This last is related to a number of S-matrix identities, as well as a generalisation of the idea that the conserved charges of the theory form an eigenvector of the Cartan matrix.

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Boundary spectrum in the sine-Gordon model with Dirichlet boundary conditions

We find the spectrum of boundary bound states for the sine-Gordon model with Dirichlet boundary conditions, closing the bootstrap and providing a complete description of all the poles in the boundary reflection factors. The boundary Coleman-Thun mechanism plays an important role in the analysis. Two basic lemmas are introduced which should hold for any 1+1-dimensional boundary field theory, allowing the general method to be applied to other models.

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S-Matrix Identities in Affine Toda Field Theories

We note that S-matrix/conserved charge identities in affine Toda field theories of the type recently noted by Khastgir can be put on a more systematic footing. This makes use of a result first found by Ravanini, Tateo and Valleriani for theories based on the simply-laced Lie algebras (A,D and E) which we extend to the nonsimply-laced case. We also present the generalisation to nonsimply-laced cases of the observation - for simply-laced situations - that the conserved charges form components of the eigenvectors of the Cartan matrix.

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