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Axial symmetry and conformal Killing vectors [PDF]
, 1993 Axisymmetric spacetimes with a conformal symmetry are studied and it is shown that, if there is no further conformal symmetry, the axial Killing vector and the conformal Killing vector must commute.
Carter B +18 more
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A scaling limit for line and surface defects
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 We study symmetry-breaking line defects in the Wilson-Fisher theory with O(2N + 1) global symmetry near four dimensions and symmetry-preserving surface defects in a cubic model with O(2N) global symmetry near six dimensions.
D. Rodriguez-Gomez
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Extended conformal symmetries [PDF]
Journal of Geometry and Physics, 1993 We discuss various aspects of two-dimensional extended conformal symmetries, better known under the name “W-symmetries†. In particular, we discuss the gauging of W-symmetries and the construction of the so-called “W-gravity†theories.
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Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 I discuss the 2-flavor Schwinger model with θ = 0 and small equal and opposite fermion masses (or θ = π with equal masses). The massless model has an unparticle sector with unbroken conformal symmetry.
Howard Georgi
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Higher-dimensional symmetry of AdS2×S2 correlators
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 It was recently shown that IIB supergravity on AdS5×S5 enjoys 10d conformal symmetry and that superstring theory on this background can be described using a 10d scalar effective field theory.
Theresa Abl +2 more
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Defect a-theorem and a-maximization
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 Conformal defects describe the universal behaviors of a conformal field theory (CFT) in the presence of a boundary or more general impurities. The coupled critical system is characterized by new conformal anomalies which are analogous to, and generalize ...
Yifan Wang
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AdS3 gravity and the complex SYK models
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 We provide a non-conformal generalization of the Compère-Song-Strominger (CSS) boundary conditions for AdS3 gravity that breaks the u ̂ 1 $$ \hat{u}(1) $$ Kac-Moody-Virasoro symmetry to two u(1)s.
Pankaj Chaturvedi +3 more
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Conformal symmetry and the Standard Model
Physics Letters B, 2007 We re-examine the question of radiative symmetry breaking in the standard model in the presence of right-chiral neutrinos and a minimally enlarged scalar sector. We demonstrate that, with these extra ingredients, the hypothesis of classically unbroken conformal symmetry, besides naturally introducing and stabilizing a hierarchy, is compatible with all ...
Meissner, K., Nicolai, H.
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Conformal symmetry and the chiral anomaly [PDF]
Physical Review D, 1997 Two-loop contributions to the anomalous correlation function of three chiral currents are calculated by a method based on the conformal properties of massless field theories. The method was previously applied to virtual photon diagrams in quantum electrodynamics, and it is extended here to diagrams with scalars and chiral spinors in the abelian Higgs ...
Joshua Erlich, Daniel Z. Freedman
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Quantization of the conformal arclength functional on space curves [PDF]
, 2017 By a conformal string in Euclidean space is meant a closed critical curve with non-constant conformal curvatures of the conformal arclength functional. We prove that (1) the set of conformal classes of conformal strings is in 1-1 correspondence with the ...
Musso, Emilio, Nicolodi, Lorenzo
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