Partition functions of higher derivative conformal fields on conformally related spaces

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2021)236MaRDI QIDQ825862zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Jyotirmoy Mukherjee

Publication date 17 December 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00929

zbMATH Keywords

conformal and W symmetryconformal field theorygauge symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: The character integral representation of one loop partition functions is useful to establish the relation between partition functions of conformal fields on Weyl equivalent spaces. The Euclidean space $S^{a}imesAd{S}_b$ can be mapped to $S^{a+b}$ provided $S^a$ and $Ad{S}_b$ are of the same radius. As an example, to begin with, we show that the partition function in the character integral representation of conformally coupled free scalars and fermions are identical on $S^{a}imesAd{S}_b$ and $S^{a+b}$. We then demonstrate that the partition function of higher derivative conformal scalars and fermions are also the same on hyperbolic cylinders and branched spheres. The partition function of the four-derivative conformal vector gauge field on the branched sphere in $d=6$ dimension can be expressed as an integral over `naive' bulk and `naive' edge characters. However, the partition function of the conformal vector gauge field on $S_q^{1}imesAd{S}_5$ contains only the `naive' bulk part of the partition function. This follows the same pattern which was observed for the partition of conformal $p$-form fields on hyperbolic cylinders. We use the partition function of higher derivative conformal fields on hyperbolic cylinders to obtain a linear relationship between the Hofman-Maldacena variables which enables us to show that these theories are non-unitary.

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