Strong gauging or decoupling ghost matter

DOI10.1142/S0217751X15501559zbMATH Open1337.81090arXiv1506.05208MaRDI QIDQ2809056FDOQ2809056

Authors: Yu Nakayama 

Publication date: 27 May 2016

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Gauging extra matter is a common way to couple two CFTs discontinuously. We may consider gauging matter by strongly coupled gauge theories at criticality rather than by weakly coupled (asymptotic free) gauge theories. It often triggers relevant deformations and possibly leads to a non-trivial fixed point. In many examples such as the IR limit of SQCDs (and their variants), the relevant RG flow induced by this strong gauging makes the total central charge $a$ increase rather than decrease compared with the sum of the original decoupled CFTs. The dilaton effective field theory argument given by Komargodski and Schwimmer does not apply because strong gauging is not a simple deformation by operators in the original two decoupled CFTs and it may not be UV complete. When the added matter is vector-like, one may emulate strong gauging in a UV completed manner by decoupling of ghost matter. While the UV completed description makes the dilaton effective field theory argument possible, due to the non-unitarity, we cannot conclude the positivity of the central charge difference in accordance with the observations in various examples that show the contrary.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.05208

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zbMATH Keywords

renormalization group\(c\)-theoremstrong gauging

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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