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Dangerous Liouville Wave -- exactly marginal but non-conformal deformation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v3

Abstract

We give a non-trivially interacting field theory example of scale invariant but non-conformal field theory. The model is based on the exactly solvable Liouville field theory coupled with free scalars deformed by an exactly marginal operator. We show non-vanishing of the trace of the energy-momentum tensor by using the quantum Schwinger-Dyson equation for the Liouville field theory, which is a sophistication of the quantum higher equations of motion for the Liouville field theory introduced by Alyosha Zamolodchikov. Possibly dangerous implications for the super-critical string theory will be discussed.

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@article{arxiv.0804.3635,
  title  = {Dangerous Liouville Wave -- exactly marginal but non-conformal deformation},
  author = {Chiu Man Ho and Yu Nakayama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.3635},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Improved version to appear in JHEP

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