Energy-Momentum tensor correlators in theory I: The spin-zero sector
Nikos Irges (Department of Physics, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, GR-15780 Athens, Greece, Department of Physics, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, GR-15780 Athens, Greece)
; Leonidas Karageorgos (Department of Physics, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, GR-15780 Athens, Greece, Department of Physics, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, GR-15780 Athens, Greece)
We revisit the construction of the renormalized trace Θ of the Energy-Momentum tensor in the four-dimensional theory, using dimensional regularization in dimensions. We first construct several basic correlators such as , to order and from these the correlators and with the basis of dimension d operators. We then match the limit of their expressions on the Wilson-Fisher fixed point to the corresponding expressions obtained in Conformal Field Theory. Then, using the 3-point function , we construct the operator Θ as a certain linear combination of the basis operators, using the requirements that Θ should vanish on the fixed point and that it should have zero anomalous dimension. Finally, we compute the 2-point function and we show that it obeys an eigenvalue equation that gives additional information about the internal structure of the Energy-Momentum tensor operator to what is already contained in its Callan-Symanzik equation.