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Renormalization, conformal ward identities and the origin of a conformal anomaly pole

Authors :
Claudio CorianĂ²
Matteo Maria Maglio
Source :
Physics Letters B, Vol 781, Iss , Pp 283-289 (2018)
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
Elsevier, 2018.

Abstract

We investigate the emergence of a conformal anomaly pole in conformal field theories in the case of the TJJ correlator. We show how it comes to be generated in dimensional renormalization, using a basis of 13 form factors (the F-basis), where only one of them requires renormalization (F13), extending previous studies. We then combine recent results on the structure of the non-perturbative solutions of the conformal Ward identities (CWI's) for the TJJ in momentum space, expressed in terms of a minimal set of 4 form factors (A-basis), with the properties of the F-basis, and show how the singular behaviour of the corresponding form factors in both basis can be related. The result proves the centrality of such massless effective interactions induced by the anomaly, which have recently found realization in solid state, in the theory of topological insulators and of Weyl semimetals. This pattern is confirmed in massless abelian and nonabelian theories (QED and QCD) investigated at one-loop.

Subjects

Subjects :
Physics
QC1-999

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
03702693
Volume :
781
Issue :
283-289
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Physics Letters B
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.1eacdbc36e4b4346bad4aa952da28fb5
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.04.003