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Comments on compatibility between Conformal symmetry and Continuous higher-form symmetries

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-10-13 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study the compatibility between the conformal symmetry together with the unitarity and the continuous higher-form symmetries. We show that the d-dimensional unitary conformal field theories are not consistent with continuous p-form symmetries for certain (d,p), assuming that the corresponding conserved current is a conformal primary operator. We further discuss several dynamical applications of this constraint.

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@article{arxiv.2108.00732,
  title  = {Comments on compatibility between Conformal symmetry and Continuous higher-form symmetries},
  author = {Yasunori Lee and Yunqin Zheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.00732},
  year   = {2021}
}

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14 pages, 5 tables

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