Physics Asked on December 11, 2020
So, I’m learning about Twistors, and in every book I’ve read they say the same:
“If a flat theory is Poincaré-invariant and it is invariant under conformal rescaling (Weyl scaling), it is then conformally invariant (in the sence of conformal transformations)”
First let me say that I can’t find a proof about this, but for me this looks like another way of stating the Liouville Theorem (or maybe may be it’s a consequence).
Second, Is this sentence the reason for study only conformal rescaling (in the flat space)?
The proof of this statement has only been established for 4-dimensions recently. See M. A. Luty, J. Polchinski, R. Rattazzi "The a-theorem and the Asymptotics of 4D Quantum Field Theory" JHEP01 (2013) 152
For two dimensions, there has been a robust proof for more than 26 years. See J. Polchinski, "Scale And Conformal Invariance in Quantum Field Theory," Nucl. Phys. B 303, (1988) 226.
Answered by Ali Moh on December 11, 2020
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