Interface conformal anomalies

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2020)132zbMATH Open1456.81382arXiv2005.01689MaRDI QIDQ2657783FDOQ2657783

Authors: Christopher P. Herzog, Kuo-Wei Huang, D. V. Vassilevich 

Publication date: 14 March 2021

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

Abstract: We consider two $dgeq2$ conformal field theories (CFTs) glued together along a codimension one conformal interface. The conformal anomaly of such a system contains both bulk and interface contributions. In a curved-space setup, we compute the heat kernel coefficients and interface central charges in free theories. The results are consistent with the known boundary CFT data via the folding trick. In $d=4$, two interface invariants generally allowed as anomalies turn out to have vanishing interface charges. These missing invariants are constructed from components with odd parity with respect to flipping the orientation of the defect. We conjecture that all invariants constructed from components with odd parity may have vanishing coefficient for symmetric interfaces, even in the case of interacting interface CFT.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01689

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryfield theories in higher dimensionsboundary quantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

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