Monday, October 24, 2011
4:00 PM -
5:00 PM
Lauritsen 469
High Energy Physics Seminar
Scale without Conformal Invariance
Jean-Francois Fortin,
UCSD,
We investigate the theoretical implications of scale without conformal invariance in quantum field theory. We argue that the RG flows of such theories correspond to recurrent behaviors, i.e. limit cycles or ergodicity. We discuss the implications for the a-theorem and show how dilatation generators do generate dilatations. Finally, we discuss well-behaved non-conformal scale-invariant example
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