Broken scale invariance and the regularization of a conformal sector in gravity with Wess-Zumino actions

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2023.138003MaRDI QIDQ6173386zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Claudio Corianò, Mario Cretì, Matteo Maria Maglio

Publication date 21 July 2023

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07460

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18) Extrapolation to the limit, deferred corrections (65B05) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Effective quantum field theories (81T12) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We elaborate on anomaly induced actions of the Wess-Zumino (WZ) form and their relation to the renormalized effective action, which is defined by an ordinary path integral over a conformal sector, in an external gravitational background. In anomaly-induced actions, the issue of scale breaking is usually not addressed, since these actions are obtained only by solving the trace anomaly constraint and are determined by scale invariant functionals. We investigate the changes induced in the structure of such actions once identified in dimensional renormalization (DR) when the $epsilon=d-4o0$ limit is accompanied by the dimensional reduction (DRed) of the field dependencies. We show that operatorial nonlocal modifications $(simBo{x}^{e}psilon)$ of the counterterms are unnecessary to justify a scale anomaly. In this case, only the ordinary finite subtractions play a critical role in the determination of the scale breaking. This is illustrated for the WZ form of the effective action and its WZ consistency condition, as seen from a renormalization procedure. Logarithmic corrections from finite subtractions are also illustrated in a pure $d=4$ (cutoff) scheme. The interplay between two renormalization schemes, one based on dimensional regularization (DR) and the second on a cutoff in $d=4$, illustrates the ambiguities of DR in handling the quantum corrections in a curved background. Therefore, using DR in a curved background, the scale and trace anomalies can both be obtained by counterterms that are Weyl invariant only at $d=4$.

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