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Scale and conformal invariance in field theory: A physical counterexample

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PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume 622, Issue 3-4, Pages 339-342

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2005.07.010

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scale and conformal invariance in QFT; theory of elasticity

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In this Letter, we illustrate how the two-dimensional theory of elasticity provides a physical example of field theory displaying scale but not conformal invariance. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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