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Non-relativistic conformal field theory in the presence of boundary

Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2022, Article number: 171 (2022) Cite this article

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We study non-relativistic conformal field theory on a flat space in the presence of a planar boundary. We compute correlation functions of primary operators and obtain the expression for the boundary conformal block. We also discuss the non-relativistic conformal field theory on a general curved background in the presence of a boundary. As an example, we discuss the spectrum of boundary primary operator and compute scaling dimensions in a fermionic theory near one and three spatial dimensions.

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Gupta, R.K., Singh, R. Non-relativistic conformal field theory in the presence of boundary. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 171 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2022)171

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Keywords

  • Boundary Quantum Field Theory
  • Global Symmetries
  • Space-Time Symme- tries