Globally conformal invariant gauge field theory with rational correlation functions

Nikolov, Nikolay M.; Stanev, Yassen S.; Todorov, Ivan T.

Globally conformal invariant gauge field theory with rational correlation functions

Authors

Nikolov, Nikolay M.

Stanev, Yassen S.

Todorov, Ivan T.

Description

Operator product expansions (OPE) for the product of a scalar field with its conjugate are presented as infinite sums of bilocal fields V_k (x_1, x_2) of dimension (k,k). For a {\it globally conformal invariant} (GCI) theory we write down the OPE of V_k into a series of {\it twist} (dimension minus rank) 2k symmetric traceless tensor fields with coefficients computed from the (rational) 4-point function of the scalar field. We argue that the theory of a GCI hermitian scalar field L(x) of dimension 4 in D = 4 Minkowski space such that the 3-point functions of a pair of L's and a scalar field of dimension 2 or 4 vanish can be interpreted as the theory of local observables of a conformally invariant fixed point in a gauge theory with Lagrangian density L(x).
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