Correlation functions of the energy-momentum tensor on spaces of constant curvature

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00775-0MaRDI QIDQ1572540zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors H. Osborn, Graham M. Shore

Publication date 12 July 2000

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9909043

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

Abstract: An analysis of one and two point functions of the energy momentum tensor on homogeneous spaces of constant curvature is undertaken. The possibility of proving a $c$-theorem in this framework is discussed, in particular in relation to the coefficients $c,a$, which appear in the energy momentum tensor trace on general curved backgrounds in four dimensions. Ward identities relating the correlation functions are derived and explicit expressions are obtained for free scalar, spinor field theories in general dimensions and also free vector fields in dimension four. A natural geometric formalism which is independent of any choice of coordinates is used and the role of conformal symmetries on such constant curvature spaces is analysed. The results are shown to be constrained by the operator product expansion. For negative curvature the spectral representation, involving unitary positive energy representations of $O(d-1,2)$, for two point functions of vector currents is derived in detail and extended to the energy momentum tensor by analogy. It is demonstrated that, at non coincident points, the two point functions are not related to $a$ in any direct fashion and there is no straightforward demonstration obtainable in this framework of irreversibility under renormalisation group flow of any function of the couplings for four dimensional field theories which reduces to $a$ at fixed points.

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