Spectral sum rules for conformal field theories in arbitrary dimensions

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2017)119MaRDI QIDQ1696320zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Subham Dutta Chowdhury, Justin R. David, Shiroman Prakash

Publication date 14 February 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00609

zbMATH Keywords

AdS-CFT correspondenceconformal field theoryfield theories in higher dimensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: We derive spectral sum rules in the shear channel for conformal field theories at finite temperature in general $dgeq3$ dimensions. The sum rules result from the OPE of the stress tensor at high frequency as well as the hydrodynamic behaviour of the theory at low frequencies. The sum rule states that a weighted integral of the spectral density over frequencies is proportional to the energy density of the theory. We show that the proportionality constant can be written in terms the Hofman-Maldacena variables $t_2,t_4$ which determine the three point function of the stress tensor. For theories which admit a two derivative gravity dual this proportionality constant is given by $fracd2(d+1)$. We then use causality constraints and obtain bounds on the sum rule which are valid in any conformal field theory. Finally we demonstrate that the high frequency behaviour of the spectral function in the vector and the tensor channel are also determined by the Hofman-Maldacena variables.

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