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International Journal of Modern Physics B

VERTEX OPERATORS IN THE QUANTUM HALL EFFECT

Michael Stone

Published Feb 10, 1991• 50 citations
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Abstract

The edge states of the quantum Hall effect carry representations of chiral current algebras and their associated groups. In the simplest case of a single filled Landau level, I demonstrate explicitly how the group action affects the many-body states, and why the Kac-Peterson cocycle appears in the group multiplication law. I show how these representations may be used to construct vertex operators which create localised edge excitations, and indicate how they are related to the bulk quasi-particles.

DOI
10.1142/s0217979291000316

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