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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