Weyl versus conformal invariance in quantum field theory
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Publication:1709375
DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2017)170zbMATH Open1383.81209arXiv1702.07079OpenAlexW2603928152MaRDI QIDQ1709375FDOQ1709375
Authors: Kara Farnsworth, Markus A. Luty, Valentina Prilepina 
Publication date: 27 March 2018
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We argue that conformal invariance in flat spacetime implies Weyl invariance in a general curved background metric for all unitary theories in spacetime dimensions . We also study possible curvature corrections to the Weyl transformations of operators, and show that these are absent for operators of sufficiently low dimensionality and spin. We find possible `anomalous' Weyl transformations proportional to the Weyl (Cotton) tensor for (). The arguments are based on algebraic consistency conditions similar to the Wess-Zumino consistency conditions that classify possible local anomalies. The arguments can be straightforwardly extended to larger operator dimensions and higher with additional algebraic complexity.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07079
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