I am recently studying bosonization. In "the yellow book" by Philippe Di Francesco, Pierre Mathieu, and David Sénéchal, they calculated the partition function of a compactified boson using the path integral method. For each winding configuration and (where we identified the torus as ), the partition function is where is the partition function with periodic boundary condition. The total partition function is then After Poisson resummation, we get Alternatively, we can use canonical quantization to get the same result. In the canonical quantization language, is the label of , the zero mode of . I'm having trouble understanding why Poisson resummation over temporal windings gives us the sum over possible eigenvalues. Mathematically it makes sense. But what does this Poisson resummation physically mean? Poisson resummation, if I understand correctly, is a Fourier transformation. I don't understand why after Fourier transformation, we get eigenvalue labels.
Poisson Resummation in CFT Bosonization
Irene

