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CFTs on curved spaces

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-02-24 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study conformal field theories (CFTs) on curved spaces including both orientable and unorientable manifolds possibly with boundaries. We first review conformal transformations on curved manifolds. We then compute the identity components of conformal groups acting on various metric spaces using a simple fact; given local coordinate systems be single-valued. Boundary conditions thus obtained which must be satisfied by conformal Killing vectors (CKVs) correctly reproduce known conformal groups. As a byproduct, on Sl1×Hr2\mathbb S^1_l\times\mathbb H^2_r, by setting their radii l=Nrl=Nr with NN×N\in\mathbb N^\times, we find (the identity component of) the conformal group enhances, whose persistence in higher dimensions is also argued. We also discuss forms of correlation functions on these spaces using the symmetries. Finally, we study a dd-torus Td\mathbb T^d in detail, and show the identity component of the conformal group acting on the manifold in general is given by Conf0(Td)U(1)d\text{Conf}_0(\mathbb T^d)\simeq U(1)^d when d2d\ge2. Using the fact, we suggest some candidates of conformal manifolds of CFTs on Td\mathbb T^d without assuming the presence of supersymmetry (SUSY). In order to clarify which parts of correlation functions are physical, we also discuss renormalization group (RG) and local counterterms on curved spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1902.06928,
  title  = {CFTs on curved spaces},
  author = {Ken Kikuchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.06928},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

71 pages; v2: comments and references added; v3: version published in ATMP

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