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First-order conformal perturbation theory by marginal operators

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-02-27 v2

Abstract

We perform conformal perturbation theory by marginal operators to first order. A suitable renormalization method is needed that makes the conformal invariance of the deformed correlation functions manifest. Combining the embedding space formalism with the dimensional regularization, we explicitly check that the deformed and renormalized two and three point functions are conformally invariant.

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@article{arxiv.1711.05947,
  title  = {First-order conformal perturbation theory by marginal operators},
  author = {Kallol Sen and Yuji Tachikawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.05947},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Section 4 removed owing to an issue pointed out by Slava Rychkov. References added

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