Boundary Quantum Field Theories Perturbed by $\mathrm{T}\bar{\mathrm{T}}$: Towards a Form Factor Program

Abstract

Our understanding of irrelevant perturbations of integrable quantum field theories has greatly expanded over the last decade. In particular, we know that, from a scattering theory viewpoint at least, their effect is realised as a modification the two-body scattering amplitudes by a CDD factor. While this sounds like a relatively small change, this CDD factor incorporates a non-trivial dependence on the perturbation parameter(s) and alters substantially the high-energy physics of the model. This occurs through the introduction of a natural length scale and is associated with phenomena such as the Hagedorn transition. In this paper we discuss how all these features extend to boundary integrable quantum field theories and propose a construction for the building blocks of matrix elements of local fields. We show that the same type of building blocks are also found in the sinh-Gordon model with Dirichlet boundary conditions.

arXiv comment13 pages, 1 figure; Fixed some typos, added a small discussion on CDD ambiguities, added subsections 3.2 and 3.3 on 2- and higher-particle form factors

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