A note on commutation relation in conformal field theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2021)187MaRDI QIDQ2237688zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Lento Nagano, Seiji Terashima

Publication date 27 October 2021

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/2101.04090

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryfield theories in higher dimensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: In this note, we explicitly compute the vacuum expectation value of the commutator of scalar fields in a d-dimensional conformal field theory on the cylinder. We find from explicit calculations that we need smearing not only in space but also in time to have finite commutators except for those of free scalar operators. Thus the equal time commutators of the scalar fields are not well-defined for a non-free conformal field theory, even if which is defined from the Lagrangian. We also have the commutator for a conformal field theory on Minkowski space, instead of the cylinder, by taking the small distance limit. For the conformal field theory on Minkowski space, the above statements are also applied.

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