Stress-tensor commutators in conformal field theories near the lightcone
Abstract
Starting with the general stress-tensor commutation relations consistent with the Poincaré algebra in local quantum field theory, we impose the tracelessness condition and focus on the dominating contributions in the lightcone limit. It is shown that, under a certain assumption on the Schwinger term, a Virasoro-algebra-like structure emerges near the lightcone in d > 2 conformal field theories.
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- Boston Univ., MA (United States)
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- OSTI ID: 1612336
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- Physical Review D
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- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 100 Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
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- American Physical Society
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- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics; Conformal field theory
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Huang, Kuo-Wei. Stress-tensor commutators in conformal field theories near the lightcone. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.061701.
Huang, Kuo-Wei. Stress-tensor commutators in conformal field theories near the lightcone. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.061701
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"Stress-tensor commutators in conformal field theories near the lightcone". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.061701.
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title = {Stress-tensor commutators in conformal field theories near the lightcone},
author = {Huang, Kuo-Wei},
abstractNote = {Starting with the general stress-tensor commutation relations consistent with the Poincaré algebra in local quantum field theory, we impose the tracelessness condition and focus on the dominating contributions in the lightcone limit. It is shown that, under a certain assumption on the Schwinger term, a Virasoro-algebra-like structure emerges near the lightcone in d > 2 conformal field theories.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.100.061701},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 6,
volume = 100,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {9}
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