Expectation value of TT\mathrm{T}\overline{\mathrm{T}} operator in curved spacetimes

Mar 18, 2019
26 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 02 (2020) 094
  • Published: Feb 17, 2020
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-TH-2019-030

Citations per year

20192021202320252025051015
Abstract: (Springer)
We study the expectation value of the TT \mathrm{T}\overline{\mathrm{T}} operator in maximally symmetric spacetimes. We define an diffeomorphism invariant biscalar whose coinciding limit gives the expectation value of the TT \mathrm{T}\overline{\mathrm{T}} operator. We show that this biscalar is a constant in flat spacetime, which reproduces Zamolodchikov’s result in 2004. For spacetimes with non-zero curvature, we show that this is no longer true and the expectation value of the TT \mathrm{T}\overline{\mathrm{T}} operator depends on both the one- and two-point functions of the stress-energy tensor.
Note:
  • Minor modifications, journal version
  • Effective Field Theories
  • Field Theories in Lower Dimensions
  • Renormalization Group
  • diffeomorphism: invariance
  • tensor: energy-momentum
  • space-time
  • curvature
  • two-point function