I'm reading a book of conformal field theory (the one by Di Francesco, Pierre Mathieu and David Senechal), and I'm having trouble understanding the math in a section (p. 468)
The aim of the section is to compute the two-point function, on a plane, of a magnetic operator, for a compact boson.
The bosonic field is decomposed between a classical and a quantum part, the classical part having the following form :
φcl=mRln(z−z1z−z2)
And the action (S[Φ]=−18π∫(∇Φ)2, with their conventions) gives :
S[˜φ+φcl]=S[˜φ]+S[φcl]−14π∫∇˜φ∇φcl
The third term is evaluated to zero, as Δφcl=0. And the second one is given by :
1|z1−z2|mR22
The result is classic and I know it can be obtained differently, but I don't understand :
- how that final integral is computed
- why the third term gives zero
Thank you for your help,
(and this is my first post, so nice to meet you, and sorry for any mistake)