Spacetime Duality Beyond Conformality
Abstract
We extend the spacetime duality programme of Burgess \textit{et.al.} to massive theories in 1+1 dimensions. For the massive scalar, a heat-kernel computation tracking three contributions to the conformal-mode effective action reveals that the naive leading correction to the Liouville action cancels exactly, with the genuine leading deformation being . This breaks self-duality and renders the dual theory for the Lagrange multiplier field non-local. For the massive Dirac fermion, two independent derivations establish that the fermion mass dresses under conformal scaling as , reflecting the Weyl weight of the two-dimensional spinor. Via the Coleman-Mandelstam bosonisation, this transfers to the mass bilinear as , producing a coupled Liouville-sine-Gordon system as the natural starting point for the fermionic construction. Both results are interpreted in terms of the determinant line bundle over Met()/Diff().
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.05515,
title = {Spacetime Duality Beyond Conformality},
author = {Jeff Murugan and Horatiu Nastase},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.05515},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
31 pages, no figures