Scale-invariant breaking of conformal symmetry

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/48/41/41FT01MaRDI QIDQ3452287zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Anatoly Dymarsky, Alexander Zhiboedov

Publication date 11 November 2015

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.01152

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryhigher spin symmetryrenormalization group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: Known examples of unitary relativistic scale but not conformal-invariant field theories (SFTs) can be embedded into conventional conformal field theories (CFTs). We show that any SFT which is a subsector of a unitary CFT is a free theory. Our discussion applies to an arbitrary number of spacetime dimensions and explains triviality of known SFTs in four spacetime dimensions. We comment on examples of unitary SFTs which are not captured by our construction.

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