Fractal index, central charge and fractons

Wellington da Cruz, Rosevaldo de Oliveira

Published 2000-02-22, updated 2000-10-10Version 9

We introduce the notion of fractal index associated with the universal class $h$ of particles or quasiparticles, termed fractons, which obey specific fractal statistics. A connection between fractons and conformal field theory(CFT)-quasiparticles is established taking into account the central charge $c[\nu]$ and the particle-hole duality $\nu\longleftrightarrow\frac{1}{\nu}$, for integer-value $\nu$ of the statistical parameter. In this way, we derive the Fermi velocity in terms of the central charge as $v\sim\frac{c[\nu]}{\nu+1}$. The Hausdorff dimension $h$ which labelled the universal classes of particles and the conformal anomaly are therefore related. Following another route, we also established a connection between Rogers dilogarithm function, Farey series of rational numbers and the Hausdorff dimension.