Conformal manifolds with boundaries or defects

doi:10.1007/jhep07(2018)156

Title: Conformal manifolds with boundaries or defects

Abstract

We discuss conformal manifolds for conformal field theories with boundaries or defects. Using conformal perturbation theory we derive constraints on coefficients appearing in the boundary operator product expansion and three-point functions that need to be satisfied for the existence of marginal couplings. We present several explicit examples where we confirm that β-functions vanish using a position space regularization, differential regularization. Where possible, we confirm that our β-function results agree with the existing literature.

Authors:

Karch, Andreas ^[1];

^[2]

Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Physics
Univ. of Tokyo (Japan). Dept. of Physics

Publication Date:: 2018-07-25

Research Org.:: Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)

OSTI Identifier:: 1499383

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1595222

Grant/Contract Number:: [SC0011637]

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

Additional Journal Information:: [Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2018; Journal Issue: 7]; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer Berlin

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Conformal Field Theory; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; AdS-CFT Correspondence

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  abstractNote = {We discuss conformal manifolds for conformal field theories with boundaries or defects. Using conformal perturbation theory we derive constraints on coefficients appearing in the boundary operator product expansion and three-point functions that need to be satisfied for the existence of marginal couplings. We present several explicit examples where we confirm that β-functions vanish using a position space regularization, differential regularization. Where possible, we confirm that our β-function results agree with the existing literature.},

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  journal      = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},

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