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Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity

Harlow, Daniel ; Ooguri, Hirosi

Communications in mathematical physics, 2021-05, Vol.383 (3), p.1669-1804 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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  • Título:
    Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity
  • Autor: Harlow, Daniel ; Ooguri, Hirosi
  • Assuntos: Anomalies ; Broken symmetry ; Classical and Quantum Gravitation ; Complex Systems ; Convexity ; Einstein equations ; Field theory ; Gauge theory ; Gravity ; Mathematical and Computational Physics ; Mathematical Physics ; Order parameters ; Particle decay ; Particle physics ; Physics ; Physics and Astronomy ; Quantum field theory ; Quantum gravity ; Quantum Physics ; Quantum theory ; Relativity Theory ; Standard model (particle physics) ; Symmetry ; Theoretical ; Topology
  • É parte de: Communications in mathematical physics, 2021-05, Vol.383 (3), p.1669-1804
  • Notas: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
    SC0011632; SC0018944; SC0019127
  • Descrição: In this paper we use the AdS/CFT correspondence to refine and then establish a set of old conjectures about symmetries in quantum gravity. We first show that any global symmetry, discrete or continuous, in a bulk quantum gravity theory with a CFT dual would lead to an inconsistency in that CFT, and thus that there are no bulk global symmetries in AdS/CFT. We then argue that any “long-range” bulk gauge symmetry leads to a global symmetry in the boundary CFT, whose consistency requires the existence of bulk dynamical objects which transform in all finite-dimensional irreducible representations of the bulk gauge group. We mostly assume that all internal symmetry groups are compact, but we also give a general condition on CFTs, which we expect to be true quite broadly, which implies this. We extend all of these results to the case of higher-form symmetries. Finally we extend a recently proposed new motivation for the weak gravity conjecture to more general gauge groups, reproducing the “convex hull condition” of Cheung and Remmen. An essential point, which we dwell on at length, is precisely defining what we mean by gauge and global symmetries in the bulk and boundary. Quantum field theory results we meet while assembling the necessary tools include continuous global symmetries without Noether currents, new perspectives on spontaneous symmetry-breaking and ’t Hooft anomalies, a new order parameter for confinement which works in the presence of fundamental quarks, a Hamiltonian lattice formulation of gauge theories with arbitrary discrete gauge groups, an extension of the Coleman–Mandula theorem to discrete symmetries, and an improved explanation of the decay π 0 → γ γ in the standard model of particle physics. We also describe new black hole solutions of the Einstein equation in d + 1 dimensions with horizon topology T p × S d - p - 1 .
  • Editor: Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
  • Idioma: Inglês
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