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arXiv:hep-th/9510008 · International Journal of Modern Physics A

BOUNDARY S MATRIX FOR THE TRICRITICAL ISING MODEL

LEUNG CHIM

Published Oct 10, 1996• 73 citations
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Abstract

The tricritical Ising model perturbed by the subleading energy operator [Formula: see text] was known to be an integrable scattering theory of massive kinks,14 and in fact it preserves supersymmetry. We consider here the model defined on the half-plane with a boundary and compute the associated factorizable boundary S matrix. The conformal boundary conditions of this model are identified and the corresponding S matrices are found. We also show how some of these S matrices can be perturbed and generate “flows” between different boundary conditions.

DOI
10.1142/s0217751x9600208x

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