Cauchy conformal fields in dimensions d > 2

DOI10.1007/S00220-015-2547-XMaRDI QIDQ728513zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christoph A. Keller, Daniel Harry Friedan

Publication date 20 December 2016

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.07475

zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: Holomorphic fields play an important role in 2d conformal field theory. We generalize them to d>2 by introducing the notion of Cauchy conformal fields, which satisfy a first order differential equation such that they are determined everywhere once we know their value on a codimension 1 surface. We classify all the unitary Cauchy fields. By analyzing the mode expansion on the unit sphere, we show that all unitary Cauchy fields are free in the sense that their correlation functions factorize on the 2-point function. We also discuss the possibility of non-unitary Cauchy fields and classify them in d=3 and 4.

Review text

In this article, the authors analyze the role of holomorphic fields in 2d conformal field theory. They generalize the analysis to fields in \(d > 2\) by introducing the notion of ``Cauchy conformal fields, which are fields that satisfy a certain first-order differential equation, are free in the sense that their correlation functions factorize on the 2-point function. The authors then classify all the unitary Cauchy conformal fields and conclude by discussing the possibility of non-unitary Cauchy fields and classify them in \(d=3\) and \(d=4\).

Recommendations

• Liouville conformal field theory on even-dimensional spheres
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 66472
• CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY IN TWO DIMENSIONS
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3419
• METHOD OF SOLVING CONFORMAL MODELS IN D-DIMENSIONAL SPACE III SECONDARY FIELDS IN D>2 AND THE SOLUTION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELS

Cites work

• All Possible Symmetries of the<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>S</mml:mi></mml:math>Matrix
• All unitary ray representations of the conformal group SU(2,2) with positive energy
• Constraining conformal field theories with a higher spin symmetry
• Constraining conformal field theory with higher spin symmetry in four dimensions
• Discrete Series for the Universal Covering Group of the 3 + 2 de Sitter Group
• Embeddings of unitary highest weight representations and generalized Dirac operators
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3849517 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 51906 (Why is no real title available?)
• On the uniqueness of higher-spin symmetries in AdS and CFT
• Orbit measures, random matrix theory and interlaced determinantal processes
• Restrictions imposed by superconformal invariance on quantum field theories
• Scale-invariant breaking of conformal symmetry

Cited in

(7)

• Non-equilibrium steady state in the hydro regime
• Conformal Birkhoff and Taub theorems in higher dimensions
• METHOD OF SOLVING CONFORMAL MODELS IN D-DIMENSIONAL SPACE III SECONDARY FIELDS IN D>2 AND THE SOLUTION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELS
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1953353 (Why is no real title available?)
• Coupling ofc  =  −2 andc$=\frac{1}{2}$ andc  =  0 conformal field theories: the geometrical point of view
• Spinning Witten diagrams
• From higher spins to strings: a primer

This page was built for publication: Cauchy conformal fields in dimensions \({d > 2}\)

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q728513)