Violation of Universal Operator Growth Hypothesis in $\mathcal{W}_3$Conformal Field Theories
Abstract
We show that operator growth in large-central-charge conformal field theories with symmetry can violate the universal operator growth hypothesis once the Liouvillian is enlarged to probe the higher-spin generators. For the generalized Liouvillian , 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 , including maximally violating sectors with asymptotic behavior . 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 subalgebra, indicating that the violation is rooted in the extended higher-rank symmetry itself. Our results demonstrate that extended -symmetries can qualitatively modify operator growth and evade conventional bounds on information scrambling.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
K-complexity result added