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Spontaneously broken boosts in CFTs

Spontaneously broken boosts in CFTs

A bstract Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) have rich dynamics in heavy states. We describe the constraints due to spontaneously broken boost and dilatation symmetries in such states. The spontaneously broken boost symmetries require the existence of new low-lying primaries whose scaling dimension gap, we argue, scales as O (1). We …