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Violation of Universal Operator Growth Hypothesis in $\mathcal{W}_3$Conformal Field Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-05-12 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

We show that operator growth in large-central-charge conformal field theories with W3\mathcal{W}_3 symmetry can violate the universal operator growth hypothesis once the Liouvillian is enlarged to probe the higher-spin generators. For the generalized Liouvillian L=κ1(L1+L1)+κ2(W2+W2)\mathcal{L} = \kappa_1 \left( L_1 + L_{-1} \right) + \kappa_2 \left( W_2 + W_{-2} \right), we compute the Lanczos coefficients in the descendant module of a heavy primary and find several classes with faster-than-linear growth in the descendant level NN, including maximally violating sectors with asymptotic behavior bNN2b_N \sim N^2. This superlinear growth exceeds the conjectured bound and renders the Krylov complexity divergent. We further show that the same quadratic asymptotic growth already arises in the global SL(3,R)SL(3, \mathbb{R}) subalgebra, indicating that the violation is rooted in the extended higher-rank symmetry itself. Our results demonstrate that extended W\mathcal{W}-symmetries can qualitatively modify operator growth and evade conventional bounds on information scrambling.

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@article{arxiv.2506.01957,
  title  = {Violation of Universal Operator Growth Hypothesis in $\mathcal{W}_3$Conformal Field Theories},
  author = {Dileep P. Jatkar and Sujoy Mahato and Sukrut Mondkar and Praveen Thalore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.01957},
  year   = {2026}
}

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K-complexity result added