Flat Connections and Non - Local Conserved Quantities in Irrational Conformal Field Theory
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Irrational conformal field theory (ICFT) includes rational conformal field theory as a small subspace, and the affine-Virasoro Ward identities describe the biconformal correlators of ICFT. We reformulate the Ward identities as an equivalent linear partial differential system with flat connections and new non-local conserved quantities. As examples of the formulation, we solve the system of flat connections for the coset cor-relators, the correlators of the affine-Sugawara nests and the high-level n-point correlators of ICFT.
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