Renormalization group flows, the a -theorem and conformal bootstrap

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2020)014zbMATH Open1437.81058arXiv1912.09479OpenAlexW3102361440MaRDI QIDQ779292FDOQ779292

Authors: Sandipan Kundu 

Publication date: 21 July 2020

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

Abstract: Every renormalization group flow in $d$ spacetime dimensions can be equivalently described as spectral deformations of a generalized free CFT in $(d-1)$ spacetime dimensions. This can be achieved by studying the effective action of the Nambu-Goldstone boson of broken conformal symmetry in anti-de Sitter space and then taking the flat space limit. This approach is particularly useful in even spacetime dimension where the change in the Euler anomaly $a_{UV}-a_{IR}$ can be related to anomalous dimensions of lowest twist multi-trace operators in the dual CFT. As an application, we provide a simple proof of the 4d $a$-theorem using the dual description. Furthermore, we reinterpret the statement of the $a$-theorem in 6d as a conformal bootstrap problem in 5d.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.09479

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryrenormalization groupanomalies in field and string theorieseffective field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Effective quantum field theories (81T12)

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