Liouville conformal field theories in higher dimensions

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2018)119MaRDI QIDQ1671908zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Tom Levy, Yaron Oz

Publication date 7 September 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02283

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryfield theories in higher dimensionsanomalies in field and string theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We consider a generalization of the two-dimensional Liouville conformal field theory to any number of even dimensions. The theories consist of a log-correlated scalar field with a background $mathcalQ$-curvature charge and an exponential Liouville-type potential. The theories are non-unitary and conformally invariant. They localize semiclassically on solutions that describe manifolds with a constant negative $mathcalQ$-curvature. We show that $C_T$ is independent of the $mathcalQ$-curvature charge and is the same as that of a higher derivative scalar theory. We calculate the A-type Euler conformal anomaly of these theories. We study the correlation functions, derive an integral expression for them and calculate the three-point functions of light primary operators. The result is a higher-dimensional generalization of the two-dimensional DOZZ formula for the three-point function of such operators.

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