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Parisi-Sourlas Supertranslation and Scale without Conformal symmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-01-07 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Statistical Mechanics

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 ϵ\epsilon 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