Weyl anomaly and the C-function in -deformed CFTs

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2018.11.024MaRDI QIDQ1710197zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eftychia Sagkrioti, Konstantinos Sfetsos, Konstantinos Siampos

Publication date 15 January 2019

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04189

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry (14D15) Incomplete beta and gamma functions (error functions, probability integral, Fresnel integrals) (33B20) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

Abstract: For a general $lambda$-deformation of current algebra CFTs we compute the exact Weyl anomaly coefficient and the corresponding metric in the couplings space geometry. By incorporating the exact $$-function found in previous works we show that the Weyl anomaly is in fact the exact Zamolodchikov's $C$-function interpolating between exact CFTs occurring in the UV and in the IR. We provide explicit examples with the anisotropic $SU(2)$ case presented in detail. The anomalous dimension of the operator driving the deformation is also computed in general. Agreement is found with special cases existing already in the literature.

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