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One-dimensional constant-field model satisfying full local CFT data
Example
Take the worldsheet with its standard global complex chart , orientation , and dimensionless coordinates. Use the ordinary norm topology, generated by , on the state space ; set the common domain and field-label space with the same norm topology. Present as the completed direct sum with one sector , indexed by and carrying joint weight . Let every left and right Virasoro mode vanish, for every , with . Set the vacuum to and the correlator functional to .
Use the identity state-field map , , and the pointwise weak field representative . For any chart domain , view a test function as a smooth complex-valued function of the coordinate , and define smearing by coordinate Lebesgue integration with :
Use all restrictions of biholomorphic coordinate charts on . For every chart set and ; for a centered chart at , set . For every overlap set and . Use the usual compact-support test topology on , and put . Transport test densities by . These choices include arbitrary non-affine chart changes and all centered insertion charts, not just the one global coordinate.
For every ordered pair , use the single identity-channel OPE with index set , field , coefficient , and radial domain . The package is bosonic, unitary, reflection-positive, rational in the declared finite-dimensional module category below, and discrete-spectrum; its continuous-spectrum flag is false. The analytic continuation convention treats barred insertion coordinates as independent complex variables and then restricts to the Euclidean locus. All fields, coefficients, and correlators are constant, so continuation has no branch ambiguity.
For unitarity use , linear in the first argument, with pointwise field adjoint . For reflection positivity take , positive half-surface , and field polynomials generated by smearings supported in . If is such a test function, set on the lower half-plane and define on the algebra generated by both reflected half-surface domains antilinearly by and . For rationality, declare left and right chiral algebras , identifying scalar with ; their product is , the vacuum is , translation is zero, and each conformal vector and central charge are and . Their state-field map is . Use the category of finite-dimensional modules satisfying the ordinary module axioms for either algebra, with module homomorphisms.
This is an example of the selected genus-zero state-space/OPE package. It asserts no physical model, path-integral measure, higher-genus sewing or factorization, or equivalence with another CFT axiom system.
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Facts & Assumptions
Given: The data in the Example, with coordinate Lebesgue smearing normalized as and no physical interpretation assigned to the construction.
Full local two-dimensional CFT data (clause 1): must be complete, Hausdorff and locally convex; must be dense and invariant; a direct-sum presentation declares its index set, sectors, topology and completion.
Full local two-dimensional CFT data (clause 2): must be commuting Virasoro representations with stated scalar central charges; positive energy means real spectral weights bounded below, and discrete data specify joint generalized-weight spaces and nilpotent parts.
Full local two-dimensional CFT data (clause 3): , is continuous with , and the common global-vacuum subspace is exactly .
Full local two-dimensional CFT data (clause 4): is bijective and sends the identity field to ; smeared fields are weak distributions; centered charts have chart-vacuum states and maps , with radial limit and finite compatible coordinate transport.
Full local two-dimensional CFT data (clause 4): state-field covariance is required in matrix coefficients on the common domain, with the declared mode actions on labels and convergent or locally finite sums.
Full local two-dimensional CFT data (clause 5): each ordered pair has a nonempty declared radial OPE domain and coefficient data; matrix coefficients converge absolutely and locally uniformly and have analytic representatives on the stated branches; nested domains are given for multiple insertions.
Full local two-dimensional CFT data (clause 6): bosonic fields have integral spin, correlators are single-valued on configuration space, and disjointly supported smeared fields commute.
Full local two-dimensional CFT data (clause 7): vacuum correlators from any two iterated OPE trees agree on shared convergence domains and after the declared analytic continuation.
Full local two-dimensional CFT data (clause 8): a unitary flag supplies a positive-definite Hilbert inner product, adjoint conventions, , , and field adjoints.
Full local two-dimensional CFT data (clause 8): reflection positivity requires a one-sided polynomial domain and reflection involution with Hermitian positive semidefinite form ; .
Full local two-dimensional CFT data (clause 8): rationality names a chiral algebra and module category and means that the declared category is semisimple with finitely many irreducible isomorphism classes.
Full local two-dimensional CFT data (clause 8): discrete spectrum uses the direct-sum presentation; continuous spectrum instead requires a specified direct integral.
Full local two-dimensional CFT data (scope): the package specifies genus-zero local fields and vacuum correlators and does not include higher-genus sewing or factorization.
Vertex algebra in the state–field convention: each state-field is a field, so its modes annihilate each fixed vector for all sufficiently large indices.
Vertex algebra in the state–field convention: the vacuum field is the identity, translation kills the vacuum, and creation is .
Vertex algebra in the state–field convention: translation covariance is .
Vertex algebra in the state–field convention: every pair of fields is mutually local after multiplication by some nonnegative power of .
Conformal vertex algebra of CFT type: the conformal vector has Virasoro modes and central charge , with .
Conformal vertex algebra of CFT type: CFT type requires diagonalizable nonnegative integer grading, finite-dimensional weight spaces, and .
Module for an ordinary vertex algebra: an ordinary module has lower-truncated module fields, the vacuum identity, and the module Jacobi identity with its formal delta expansion conventions; module maps intertwine every field.
Module for an ordinary vertex algebra: a simple module is nonzero with no proper nonzero submodule; a semisimple module is an internal direct sum of simple submodules, including the zero module as the empty sum.
Verification
Given: The stated spaces, sector, modes, fields, smearing, OPE data, and classification flags.
With the Euclidean topology, is Hausdorff and has a countable basis of rational balls; it is connected because line segments join any two points. Its standard smooth structure makes it an oriented real two-manifold without boundary, and its standard complex atlas consists of all compatible biholomorphic charts. Thus the specified worldsheet has the required Riemann-surface structure.
The normed space is complete, Hausdorff and locally convex; addition and scalar multiplication are continuous. Since , it is dense and is invariant under all declared zero modes and scalar fields. The one-sector direct sum over is already complete and has the stated norm topology.
For all , both Virasoro commutators and the mixed commutator have zero left side. Their right sides also vanish: every mode is zero and each central term is multiplied by or . Hence these are representations of both copies with the required central charges.
Each of and is the zero operator, diagonalizable with spectrum , which is real and bounded below. The only joint generalized-weight space is , and its nilpotent Jordan part is zero. The chosen direct-sum presentation therefore gives discrete spectrum and positive energy.
The vector is nonzero and every mode with index annihilates it. The functional is continuous and linear in the norm topology and satisfies . Since every mode is zero, every vector lies in the common global-vacuum subspace; that subspace is , so the vacuum is unique up to scalar.
Identify with by , with product , vacuum , translation , conformal vector , and state-field map . The field/truncation condition [F14] holds because only the st product is nonzero. The vacuum and creation conditions [F15] hold because and . Translation covariance [F16] holds because and the field derivative vanish; locality [F17] holds because multiplication operators commute. The zero conformal vector has all Virasoro modes and central charge zero, with as required by [F18] and step 3.1. Also and for , so its grading is diagonalizable, nonnegative, and finite dimensional with the required degree-zero space; this verifies [F19]. Declare the category of finite-dimensional ordinary -modules and their module homomorphisms as in [F20]. The vacuum axiom and linearity force every module field to be ; conversely these fields are lower-truncated and satisfy the vacuum axiom. For the module Jacobi identity, both operator products are , and , so the required identity is with the expansions of [F20]. For , the coefficient of on the left is the difference of the two binomial expansions of the polynomial ; they coincide because is a nonnegative integer, so the difference is zero. The right side has only nonnegative powers of , hence its coefficient is also zero. For , the left coefficient is by the two prescribed binomial expansions. The right coefficient is ; terms give the second sum, terms give the first because , and intermediate exponents have , so . Thus the scalar module fields satisfy the Jacobi identity. For , the module is the zero object, the empty direct sum. For , choose a basis . Each line is a submodule because the action is scalar, and it is simple because a one-dimensional space has no proper nonzero subspace; thus every finite-dimensional module is a finite direct sum of simple modules. If a nonzero simple module had dimension greater than one, the span of any nonzero vector would be a proper nonzero submodule, contradicting [F21]. Any two one-dimensional modules are isomorphic: a linear map sending one nonzero basis vector to another is bijective and intertwines scalar actions. Finally, for a short exact sequence in this finite-dimensional category, choose a basis of and lifts . The subspace maps isomorphically onto because , so . Every subspace is a submodule under scalar action, and is a module homomorphism; hence the sequence splits in the declared category. There is exactly one irreducible isomorphism class, so [F11] gives the rational flag.
The identity map is a bijection and sends the identity field label to . The pointwise field is scalar multiplication by , so and every field preserves .
For , its coordinate Lebesgue integral is finite and is scalar multiplication on . If , then for every and , , where is coordinate Lebesgue measure. This order-zero bound by the zeroth uniform seminorm proves continuity on each compact-support test-function space, hence the required weak distribution property.
On the vacuum, the vector representative is for every . It is continuous near the origin, and along every radial approach its norm limit is .
For every , the covariance commutator on either side is zero because the corresponding Virasoro mode vanishes. Every transformed label and is also zero, so every summand on both right sides vanishes and each series converges as the constant zero series. The covariance identities therefore hold in every matrix coefficient.
For each ordered pair , the product is . Since , the declared single term with coefficient is exactly the product on the nonempty radial domain .
Equip with the positive-definite Hermitian product , linear in the first argument; indeed for . Multiplication by has adjoint multiplication by , since . Every Virasoro mode has adjoint zero, so and . Thus and coordinate smearing gives . The unitary flag has its required inner product, mode identities and field adjoints.
Every scalar test density in is elementary, namely , so the elementary span is the whole test space and hence dense. Since and , the prescribed vacuum pairing is exactly for every continuous linear . For an overlap , the real Jacobian is ; change of variables gives . Thus , the required finite field identity since . A biholomorphism maps compact supports to compact supports. On each fixed compact set its derivatives, inverse derivatives and inverse Jacobian derivatives are bounded, so the chain and product rules bound each output test seminorm by finitely many input seminorms. The pushforward is continuous, with inverse the inverse-coordinate pushforward, and respects extension by zero. The derivative chain rule gives , so . The and cocycles and identity/inverse rules hold because all their factors are identities. The transported vacuum and functional equations hold because every chart has , and . Along a differentiable coordinate flow the point field and label are constant, so both the finite point-field covariance derivative and the mode covariance identity vanish; the derivative of density transport is exactly the ordinary test-density Jacobian change already accounted for by the change-of-variables identity.
For any and , the OPE matrix coefficient is the single constant . Its sum is finite, hence absolutely and locally uniformly convergent on every compact subset of the radial domain. Treating as independent complex variables gives the same constant entire representative; restriction to equal to complex conjugates recovers the Euclidean matrix coefficient. The constant extends across both excluded radial boundaries, although the declared OPE claim uses the open domain only; no branch choice is needed.
The only joint weight is , so every field has integral spin . Every finite vacuum correlator is constant on the configuration space, hence single-valued. For disjointly supported test functions , the smeared operators are scalar multiples of the identity, so . Thus the package is bosonic and local.
Let , and . For define on . Define antilinearly on the algebra of polynomials of fields smeared in by , and . Applying this twice returns each generator because and complex conjugation square to the identity, and reversing products twice restores their order; hence is an involution. Every such polynomial acts as , and its reflection acts as : for each generator the change of variable gives , and reversal leaves scalar products unchanged. If acts by , then . This is conjugate-linear in , linear in , satisfies , and has ; the domain contains the identity and all operators preserve . This verifies the full reflection-positive form.
In every centered chart the vacuum field is the jointly continuous map , with limit . For two such charts the centered-state compatibility is . Every single or iterated OPE is an equality of constant functions with one term at each fusion; transport by leaves labels and coefficients unchanged and transports each declared domain to its coordinate image. Change of variables in step 7.1 transports all smeared equalities, and constant entire continuations agree. Thus restrictions, finite transport, vacuum creation, OPE and continuation satisfy the entire finite coordinate interface, including non-affine coordinate changes.
For , let be any rooted full binary OPE tree with leaves labelled by the insertions at distinct coordinates . Define the representative coordinate recursively by at a leaf and at an internal node with right child ; thus each representative is a leaf coordinate in that node's subtree, and sibling representatives are distinct. Let be the set of pairwise-distinct configurations satisfying at every internal node. It is open, being the finite intersection of the configuration space with inverse images of the open annulus . In postorder, each node fuses its two child fields inside the declared pair domain, and its parent then fuses the resulting fields using that parent's child representatives; these are the required nested domains. The set is nonempty: choosing makes all leaves and representatives distinct and every internal distance less than . This same choice works for every tree, so any two channel domains have a common nonempty open neighborhood. Each substitution has one term, so step 7.2 gives absolute, locally uniform convergence at every stage.
For any finite labels with , the vacuum correlator is ; for the empty insertion set it is . Every OPE tree multiplies the same scalars; associativity and commutativity of complex multiplication make all tree outputs equal. The correlator is constant and entire in the independent complexified insertion variables, so analytic continuation along any path is unique and every crossed channel, including all three four-point pairings, agrees.
The established flags are unitary, reflection-positive, rational, bosonic and discrete-spectrum, while the continuous-spectrum flag is false by step 4.1. The construction verifies only the stated genus-zero data; no higher-genus sewing, path-integral measure, physical realization, or equivalence with another axiom system is a premise or conclusion.