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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 354 1 c Solution by
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Translation invariance supplies the momentum-conserving delta function. Lorentz invariance, symmetry of , stress-tensor conservation, and tracelessness then fix the remaining tensor structure to the transverse traceless spin-two projector shown in the question, up to an overall theory-dependent coefficient. Since the stress-energy tensor has scaling dimension , its momentum transform has dimension zero. The delta function has momentum dimension , so scale invariance requires
For the Wightman function, the spectral condition restricts support to the appropriate future-directed timelike momenta, with convention-dependent distributions on the null boundary. It vanishes for spacelike momentum. A time-ordered or Euclidean correlator is obtained by analytic continuation and exists more broadly, but polynomial contact terms are renormalization-scheme dependent; in even dimensions the nonlocal power is accompanied by a logarithm.
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