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Positivity bounds on effective field theories with spontaneously broken Lorentz invariance

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-10-19 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We derive positivity bounds on EFT coefficients in theories where boosts are spontaneously broken. We employ the analytic properties of the retarded Green's function of conserved currents (or of the stress-energy tensor) and assume the theory becomes conformal in the UV. The method is general and applicable to both cosmology and condensed matter systems. As a concrete example, we look at the EFT of conformal superfluids which describes the universal low-energy dynamics of CFT's at large chemical potential and we derive inequalities on the coefficients of the operators, in three dimensions, at NLO and NNLO.

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@article{arxiv.2207.14224,
  title  = {Positivity bounds on effective field theories with spontaneously broken Lorentz invariance},
  author = {Paolo Creminelli and Oliver Janssen and Leonardo Senatore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.14224},
  year   = {2022}
}

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