https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20148000015
Conformal anomaly actions for dilaton interactions
Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica “Ennio De Giorgi” Universitá del Salento and INFN Lecce Via per Arnesano 73100 Lecce, Italy
a e-mail: luigi.dellerose@le.infn.it
b e-mail: carlo.marzo@le.infn.it
c e-mail: mirko.serino@le.infn.it
Published online: 24 November 2014
We discuss, in conformally invariant field theories such as QCD with massless fermions, a possible link between the perturbative signature of the conformal anomaly, in the form of anomaly poles of the 1-particle irreducible effective action, and its descrip- tion in terms of Wess-Zumino actions with a dilaton. The two descriptions are expected to capture the UV and IR behaviour of the conformal anomaly, in terms of fundamental and effective degrees of freedom respectively, with the dilaton effective state appearing in a nonlinear realization. As in the chiral case, conformal anomalies seem to be related to the appearance of these effective interactions in the 1PI action in all the gauge-invariant sectors of the Standard Model. We show that, as a consequence of the underlying anomalous symmetry, the infinite hierarchy of recurrence relations involving self-interactions of the dilaton is entirely determined only by the first four of them. This relation can be generalized to any even space-time dimension.
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