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Positivity bounds on effective field theories with spontaneously broken Lorentz invariance

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arxiv 2207.14224 v1 pith:OZ3DAVX3 submitted 2022-07-28 hep-th astro-ph.COcond-mat.str-el

Positivity bounds on effective field theories with spontaneously broken Lorentz invariance

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We derive positivity bounds on EFT coefficients in theories where boosts are spontaneously broken. We employ the analytic properties of the retarded Green's function of conserved currents (or of the stress-energy tensor) and assume the theory becomes conformal in the UV. The method is general and applicable to both cosmology and condensed matter systems. As a concrete example, we look at the EFT of conformal superfluids which describes the universal low-energy dynamics of CFT's at large chemical potential and we derive inequalities on the coefficients of the operators, in three dimensions, at NLO and NNLO.

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