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Spontaneously broken conformal symmetry: dealing with the trace anomaly

Armillis, R.  
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Monin, A.  
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Shaposhnikov, M.  
2013
Journal of High Energy Physics

The majority of renormalizable field theories possessing the scale invariance at the classical level exhibits the trace anomaly once quantum corrections are taken into account. This leads to the breaking of scale and conformal invariance. At the same time any realistic theory must contain gravity and is thus non-renormalizable. We show that discarding the renormalizability it is possible to construct viable models allowing to preserve the scale invariance at the quantum level. We present explicit one-loop computations for two toy models to demonstrate the main idea of the approach. Constructing the renormalized energy momentum tensor we show that it is traceless, meaning that the conformal invariance is also preserved.

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research article
DOI
10.1007/Jhep10(2013)030
Web of Science ID

WOS:000325222700001

Author(s)
Armillis, R.  
Monin, A.  
Shaposhnikov, M.  
Date Issued

2013

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published in
Journal of High Energy Physics
Issue

10

Start page

30

Subjects

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

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Space-Time Symmetries

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Anomalies in Field and String Theories

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Renormalization Regularization and Renormalons

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REVIEWED

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November 4, 2013
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