Spontaneous Breaking of Conformal Invariance and Trace Anomaly Matching

Adam Schwimmer; Stefan Theisen

doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.02.003

Spontaneous Breaking of Conformal Invariance and Trace Anomaly Matching

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-03-28 v1

Authors: Adam Schwimmer , Stefan Theisen

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Abstract

We argue that when conformal symmetry is spontaneously broken the trace anomalies in the broken and unbroken phases are matched. This puts strong constraints on the various couplings of the dilaton. Using the uniqueness of the effective action for the Goldstone supermultiplet for broken ${\cal N}=1$ superconformal symmetry the dilaton effective action is calculated.

Keywords

conformal invariance spontaneous breaking trace anomaly matching dilaton effective action superconformal symmetry

Cite

@article{arxiv.1011.0696,
  title  = {Spontaneous Breaking of Conformal Invariance and Trace Anomaly Matching},
  author = {Adam Schwimmer and Stefan Theisen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.0696},
  year   = {2011}
}

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29 pages, 2 figures

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