Parisi-Sourlas Supertranslation and Scale without Conformal symmetry
Abstract
Inspired by the possibility of emergent supersymmetry in critical random systems, we study a field theory model with a quartic potential of one superfield, possessing the Parisi-Sourlas supertranslation symmetry. Within perturbative expansion, we find nine non-trivial scale invariant renormalization group fixed points, but only one of them is conformal. We, however, believe scale invariance without conformal invariance cannot occur without a sophisticated mechanism because it predicts the existence of a non-conserved but non-renormalized vector operator called virial current, whose existence must be non-generic. We show that the virial current in this model is related to the supercurrent by supertranslation. The supertranslation Ward-Takahashi identity circumvents the genericity argument, explaining its non-renormalization property.
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@article{arxiv.2411.12934,
title = {Parisi-Sourlas Supertranslation and Scale without Conformal symmetry},
author = {Yu Nakayama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.12934},
year = {2025}
}
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6+2 pages, v2: appendix added, reference added