Higher spin ANEC and the space of CFTs

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2019)001MaRDI QIDQ2317705zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors David Meltzer

Publication date 12 August 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.01913

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryAdS-CFT correspondenceconformal and W symmetryhigher spin symmetryIsing CFTholographic CFT

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: We study the positivity properties of the leading Regge trajectory in higher-dimensional, unitary, conformal field theories (CFTs). These conditions correspond to higher spin generalizations of the averaged null energy condition (ANEC). By studying higher spin ANEC, we will derive new bounds on the dimensions of charged, spinning operators and prove that if the Hofman-Maldacena bounds are saturated, then the theory has a higher spin symmetry. We also derive new, general bounds on CFTs, with an emphasis on theories whose spectrum is close to that of a generalized free field theory. As an example, we consider the Ising CFT and show how the OPE structure of the leading Regge trajectory is constrained by causality. Finally, we use the analytic bootstrap to perform additional checks, in a large class of CFTs, that higher spin ANEC is obeyed at large and finite spin. In the process, we calculate corrections to large spin OPE coefficients to one-loop and higher in holographic CFTs.

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