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Conformally invariant theory. Relationship between conformal transformations and conformal rescaling (Weyl scaling)

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)?

One Answer

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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