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.
Cite
@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