Graviton scattering and a sum rule for the c anomaly in 4D CFT

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2018)025MaRDI QIDQ1797274zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Marc Gillioz, Xiaochuan Lu, Markus A. Luty

Publication date 19 October 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.05807

zbMATH Keywords

anomalies in field and string theoriesconformal field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: 4D CFTs have a scale anomaly characterized by the coefficient $c$, which appears as the coefficient of logarithmic terms in momentum space correlation functions of the energy-momentum tensor. By studying the CFT contribution to 4-point graviton scattering amplitudes in Minkowski space we derive a sum rule for $c$ in terms of $TTmathcalO$ OPE coefficients. The sum rule can be thought of as a version of the optical theorem, and its validity depends on the existence of the massless and forward limits of the $langleTTTTangle$ correlation functions that contribute. The finiteness of these limits is checked explicitly for free scalar, fermion, and vector CFTs. The sum rule gives $c$ as a sum of positive terms, and therefore implies a lower bound on $c$ given any lower bound on $TTmathcalO$ OPE coefficients. We compute the coefficients to the sum rule for arbitrary operators of spin 0 and 2, including the energy-momentum tensor.

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