Torsion and anomalies in the warped limit of Lifschitz theories

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2020)190zbMATH Open1434.83145arXiv1909.01157MaRDI QIDQ2185369FDOQ2185369

Authors: Christian Copetti 

Publication date: 4 June 2020

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryanomalies in field and string theoriesspace-time symmetriesfermionic Lifschitz theoriesNewton-Cartan formulation of space-time geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Axial anomalies of Lifshitz fermions
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