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Renormalization, Conformal Ward Identities and the Origin of a Conformal Anomaly Pole

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-05-09 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We investigate the emergence of a conformal anomaly pole in conformal field theories in the case of the TJJTJJ correlator. We show how it comes to be generated in dimensional renormalization, using a basis of 13 form factors (the FF-basis), where only one of them requires renormalization (F13)(F_{13}), extending previous studies. We then combine recent results on the structure of the non-perturbative solutions of the conformal Ward identities (CWI's) for the TJJTJJ in momentum space, expressed in terms of a minimal set of 4 form factors (AA- basis), with the properties of the FF-basis, and show how the singular behaviour of the corresponding form factors in both basis can be related. The result proves the centrality of such massless effective interactions induced by the anomaly, which have recently found realization in solid state, in the theory of topological insulators and of Weyl semimetals. This pattern is confirmed in massless abelian and nonabelian theories (QED and QCD) investigated at one-loop.

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@article{arxiv.1802.01501,
  title  = {Renormalization, Conformal Ward Identities and the Origin of a Conformal Anomaly Pole},
  author = {Claudio Coriano and Matteo Maria Maglio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.01501},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

15 pages, 1 figure, few typos corrections, final version accepted for publication in Physics Letters B