Spontaneous Breaking of Scale Invariance in U(N) Chern-Simons Gauge Theories in Three Dimensions

Conference · Fri Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2014

OSTI ID:1294520

Bardeen, William  ^[1]

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1. Fermilab

I explore the existence of a massive phase in a conformally invariant U(N) Chern-Simons gauge theories in D = 3 with matter fields in the fundamental representation. These models have attracted recent attention as being dual, in the conformal phase, to theories of higher spin gravity on AdS 4. Using the 1t Hooft large N expansion, exact solutions are obtained for scalar current correlators in the massive phase where the conformal symmetry is spontaneously broken. A massless dilaton appears as a composite state, and its properties are discussed. Solutions exist for matters field that are either bosons or fermions.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1294520
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-CONF-14-421-T; 1480094
• Resource Relation: Conference: 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics, Valencia, Spain, 07/02-07/09/2014
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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