IR side of bounds on Theories with Spontaneously Broken Lorentz Symmetry

Abstract

In nature, some UV features of dynamics are reflected in IR quantities. In fully relativistic theories, this connection can be probed through the analyticity properties of scattering amplitudes, allowing one to understand which IR theories respect the UV assumptions of quantum field theory. The ensuing analyticity bounds can usually be rephrased as the absence of faster-than-light propagation for low-energy excitations. While it is interesting to understand these relations and their IR characterization for theories that have less idealized properties, it is also more difficult to derive analyticity bounds in these cases. For theories that spontaneously break Lorentz symmetry, recent progress was made by considering correlators of conserved currents and their analyticity properties. In this work, we focus on such theories and work to close the gap from the IR side, finding a natural way to express the known analyticity bounds purely in terms of low-energy kinematical quantities. Our analysis shows that the bounds require gapped excitations to have a slower speed than the gapless ones, at least for momenta that are low with respect to the mass gap. These results suggest a way to interpret the UV/IR connection in more complex theories.

17 pages. Published version

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