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Scale Invariance + Unitarity => Conformal Invariance?

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-27 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We revisit the long-standing conjecture that in unitary field theories, scale invariance implies conformality. We explain why the Zamolodchikov-Polchinski proof in D=2 does not work in higher dimensions. We speculate which new ideas might be helpful in a future proof. We also search for possible counterexamples. We consider a general multi-field scalar-fermion theory with quartic and Yukawa interactions. We show that there are no counterexamples among fixed points of such models in 4-epsilon dimensions. We also discuss fake counterexamples, which exist among theories without a stress tensor.

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@article{arxiv.0910.1087,
  title  = {Scale Invariance + Unitarity => Conformal Invariance?},
  author = {Daniele Dorigoni and Slava Rychkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.1087},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17pp

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