Torsion and anomalies in the warped limit of Lifschitz theories

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2020)190MaRDI QIDQ2185369zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Christian Copetti

Publication date 4 June 2020

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01157

zbMATH Keywords

anomalies in field and string theoriesconformal field theoryfermionic Lifschitz theoriesNewton-Cartan formulation of space-time geometryspace-time symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Fermionic systems in quantum theory (81V74) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We describe the physics of fermionic Lifschitz theories once the anisotropicscaling exponent is made arbitrarily small. In this limit the system acquires an enhanced(Carrollian) boost symmetry. We show, both through the explicit computation of the pathintegral Jacobian and through the solution of the Wess-Zumino consistency conditions, thatthe translation symmetry in the anisotropic direction becomes anomalous. This turns outto be a mixed anomaly between boosts and translations. In a Newton-Cartan formulationof the space-time geometry such anomaly is sourced by torsion. We use these results togive an effective field theory description of the anomalous transport coefficients, which wereoriginally computed through Kubo formulas in [1]. Along the way we provide a link withwarped CFTs.

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