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Scale without Conformal Invariance: An Example

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-09-14 v4 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We give an explicit example of a model in D=4-epsilon space-time dimensions that is scale but not conformally invariant, is unitary, and has finite correlators. The invariance is associated with a limit cycle renormalization group (RG) trajectory. We also prove, to second order in the loop expansion, in D=4-epsilon, that scale implies conformal invariance for models of any number of real scalars. For models with one real scalar and any number of Weyl spinors we show that scale implies conformal invariance to all orders in perturbation theory.

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@article{arxiv.1106.2540,
  title  = {Scale without Conformal Invariance: An Example},
  author = {Jean-François Fortin and Benjamín Grinstein and Andreas Stergiou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.2540},
  year   = {2015}
}

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13 pages, 2 figures, Erratum added

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