Parisi-Sourlas Supertranslation and Scale without Conformal symmetry
Abstract
Inspired by the possibility of emergent supersymmetry in critical random systems, we study a field theory model with a quartic potential of one superfield, possessing the Parisi-Sourlas supertranslation symmetry. Within perturbative $\epsilon$ expansion, we find nine non-trivial scale invariant renormalization group fixed points, but only one of them is conformal. We, however, believe scale invariance without conformal invariance cannot occur without a sophisticated mechanism because it predicts the existence of a non-conserved but non-renormalized vector operator called virial current, whose existence must be non-generic. We show that the virial current in this model is related to the supercurrent by supertranslation. The supertranslation Ward-Takahashi identity circumvents the genericity argument, explaining its non-renormalization property.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- November 2024
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2411.12934
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2411.12934
- Bibcode:
- 2024arXiv241112934N
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Condensed Matter - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
- E-Print:
- 6+1 pages