期刊
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 7, 页码 -出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)069
关键词
Renormalization Group; Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
资金
- NSF [PHY-0969448]
- Peter Award
- Patricia Gruber Award
- Israel Science Foundation [884/11]
If the coupling constants in QFT are promoted to functions of space-time, the dependence of the path integral on these couplings is highly constrained by conformal symmetry. We begin the present note by showing that this idea leads to a new proof of Zamolodchikov's theorem. We then review how this simple observation also leads to a derivation of the a-theorem. We exemplify the general procedure in some interacting theories in four space-time dimensions. We concentrate on Banks-Zaks and weakly relevant flows, which can be controlled by ordinary and conformal perturbation theories, respectively. We compute explicitly the dependence of the path integral on the coupling constants and extract the change in the a-anomaly (this agrees with more conventional computations of the same quantity). We also discuss some general properties of the sum rule found in [1] and study it in several examples.
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