Published October 5, 2011
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Journal article
Scale without conformal invariance: An example
- 1. Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 (United States)
Description
We give an explicit example of a model in D=4-ε space-time dimensions that is scale but not conformally invariant, is unitary, and has finite correlators. The invariance is associated with a limit cycle renormalization group (RG) trajectory. We also prove, to second order in the loop expansion, in D=4-ε, that scale implies conformal invariance for models of any number of real scalars. For models with one real scalar and any number of Weyl spinors we show that scale implies conformal invariance to all orders in perturbation theory.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.08.060Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.08.060;
- arXiv
- arXiv:1106.2540v4;
- PII
- S0370-2693(11)01008-2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters. Section B
- Journal Volume
- 704
- Journal Issue
- 1-2
- Journal Page Range
- p. 74-80
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBAJ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Syrian Arab Republic
- INIS RN
- 43073968
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; LIMIT CYCLE; PERTURBATION THEORY; RENORMALIZATION; SCALARS; SPACE-TIME; SPINORS; TRAJECTORIES
- Descriptors DEC
- ATTRACTORS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2011 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.