Spontaneous Breaking of Conformal Invariance and Trace Anomaly Matching

By A. Schwimmer, S. Theisen. 2010

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We argue that when conformal symmetry is spontaneously broken the trace anomalies in the broken and unbroken phases are matched. This puts strong constraints on the various couplings of the dilaton. Using the uniqueness of the effective action for the Goldstone supermultiplet for broken N = 1 superconformal symmetry the dilaton effective action is calculated. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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The constraints of conformal symmetry on RG flows (2011, unknown): “(see [17],[1]).”
The effective theory of long strings (2013, result): “Let us now compare the situation we are finding here with the spontaneous breaking of conformal symmetry [57,58].”
On renormalization group flows in four dimensions (2011, background): “Therefore, the total anomalies in the UV and IR must agree because of the usual arguments for anomaly matching [23].”
Comments on holographic entanglement entropy and RG flows (2012, result): “This result draws on earlier work involving the spontaneous breaking of conformal symmetry [17] and bounds on couplings in effective actions [18].”
On renormalization group flows and the a-theorem in 6d (2012, methodology): “For conformal symmetry we have the intermediate situation that the total UV and IR anomalies match [23], and the difference ∆a ≡ aUV − aIR is the coefficient of the dilaton Wess-Zumino term in the flat-space limit of (2.”