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From chiral to conformal anomalies: a double copy perspective for CFT correlators

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Pith's one-line read This paper establishes that the chiral and conformal anomalies of four-dimensional conformal field theory are related by a double copy that survives at the level of full three-point correlators and their five-dimensional flat-space…

desk verdict A plausible but unproven double-copy relation between chiral and conformal anomaly correlators; the central identity is asserted, not derived, and the prefactor bookkeeping is off. read the letter →

arxiv 2608.05731 v1 pith:2V4ZA6FG submitted 2026-08-06 hep-th

Claudio Corianò , Stefano Lionetti This is my paper · ORCID
classification hep-th
keywords doublecopychiralanomalyconformalmomentum-spaceCFTcorrelatorsflat-spacelimitChern-Simonsamplitudestress-tensorthree-pointfunctionSchoutenidentities
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The reading

The paper argues that two famous quantum anomalies in four-dimensional conformal field theory, the chiral anomaly of an axial current and the conformal anomaly of the stress tensor, are joined by a double-copy relation that survives all the way to complete momentum-space three-point functions. The parity-odd current correlators fixed by the chiral anomaly, when lifted to one higher dimension and taken to their flat-space limit, become a universal five-dimensional amplitude generated by a cubic Chern–Simons interaction. Squaring that amplitude reproduces the flat-space limit of the parity-even stress-tensor three-point function in the sector controlled by the conformal anomaly, after setting to zero the homogeneous coefficient $c_1$. This extends earlier double-copy results, which were established for local anomaly densities and for parity-even CFT correlators, into the parity-odd, anomaly-dominated sector. If correct, it shows that chiral and conformal anomalies are two appearances of one amplitude-level factorization, not separate accidents of low-dimension tensor identities.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing machinery is a three-step correspondence. First, momentum-space conformal invariance fixes the chiral-anomaly correlators and the $\langle TTT\rangle_{\rm even}$ form factors in terms of 3K integrals, integrals over products of three modified Bessel functions built on the master triangle integral $I_{1\{000\}}$. Second, the flat-space limit maps these Euclidean CFT correlators to five-dimensional Minkowski amplitudes: momenta are lifted to $\hat p_i=(p_i,\mathbf p_i)$, polarizations to $\hat\epsilon_i=(0,\epsilon_i)$, and the limit $\hat p_1+\hat p_2+\hat p_3\to 0$ extracts the leading singularity, which is the on-shell amplitude. Third, four-dimensional Schouten identities make the representation non-unique; the paper selects the representation of the chiral amplitude, Eq. (55), in which the Chern–Simons amplitude $A_{F\widetilde F}$ squares exactly to the $\phi R^2$ three-graviton amplitude $A^{222}_{\phi R^2}$. The Schouten rewriting is the step that turns a local-density coincidence into a manifest correlator-level identity.

What would settle it

A decisive calculation is to evaluate the square of the chiral-anomaly flat-space amplitude in the manifestly five-dimensional form of Eq. (51), $A_{F\widetilde F}=\varepsilon_{p_1p_2\epsilon_1\epsilon_2\epsilon_3}$, and compare with $A^{222}_{\phi R^2}$ on the same kinematic slice; if the two are not proportional, the equality (62) holds only in the Schouten-adapted basis and the double-copy claim fails. Repeating the same computation with the second Schouten identity of Eq. (54) would likewise expose any basis dependence.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that the double-copy identity holds at correlator level. In the flat-space limit, both $\langle J_VJ_VJ_A\rangle$ and $\langle J_AJ_AJ_A\rangle$ reduce to the same five-dimensional Chern–Simons amplitude $A_{F\widetilde F}=\varepsilon_{p_1p_2\epsilon_1\epsilon_2\epsilon_3}$, entirely fixed by the chiral anomaly coefficients. The paper shows that, after using one of the four-dimensional Schouten identities to rewrite this amplitude, its square is proportional to the flat-space limit of $\langle TTT\rangle_{\rm even}$ restricted to the $c_1=0$ sector, namely $\lim E^5\,\langle JJJ\rangle_{\rm odd}\langle JJJ\rangle_{\rm odd} \propto \lim E^{9/2}\,\langle TTT\rangle_{\rm even}\big|_{c_1=0}$. The surviving gravitational amplitude is the $\phi R^2$ amplitude $A^{222}_{\phi R^2}$, whose coefficient is set by the trace-anomaly combination $b_1+b_2$, while the $c_1$ piece would generate the higher-derivative $W^3$ amplitude. The paper concludes that the factorisation known for anomaly densities, with the Euler density as a product of two Pontryagin densities, extends to the full three-point correlators and to their five-dimensional amplitude limits, with the chiral anomaly coefficient squared playing the role of the conformal anomaly coefficient.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the square of the five-dimensional Chern–Simons amplitude, after the specific Schouten rewriting in Eq. (55), equals the $\phi R^2$ amplitude on the CFT kinematic slice; this product identity is asserted rather than derived, and it is only checked after imposing $c_1=0$ and discarding the other CFT and counterterm sectors.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The double-copy relation between anomaly densities is upgraded to a statement about complete momentum-space correlators, so it is not washed out by renormalisation or by the transverse-traceless sector.
  • Both parity-odd current correlators $\langle J_VJ_VJ_A\rangle$ and $\langle J_AJ_AJ_A\rangle$ share a single flat-space amplitude, making the chiral anomaly information universal at the level of on-shell amplitudes.
  • After $c_1=0$, the $\langle TTT\rangle_{\rm even}$ sector governed by $b_1+b_2$ is entirely determined by the square of the chiral-anomaly amplitude, linking the conformal anomaly coefficient to the square of the chiral anomaly coefficient.
  • The $c_1\neq 0$ sector of $\langle TTT\rangle_{\rm even}$ generates the higher-derivative $W^3$ amplitude, which does not participate in the double-copy relation; only the anomaly-controlled sector factorises.
  • Four-dimensional Schouten identities imply that the five-dimensional uplift of a four-dimensional correlator is basis-dependent, so double-copy statements must be formulated on the CFT kinematic slice rather than as fully covariant five-dimensional identities.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A natural extension, not pursued here, is to lift the mixed-parity relation (10) to correlators; that would require a nonvanishing parity-odd $\langle TTT\rangle_{\rm odd}$, a sector the paper leaves open because no momentum-space conformal solution is known.
  • The relation implies a quantitative link between anomaly coefficients: the conformal-anomaly combination $b_1+b_2$ should be proportional to the square of the chiral-anomaly coefficient $a_1$ in any theory where both anomalies are present; verifying this in a concrete Lagrangian model would test the identity beyond the kinematic derivation.
  • If the double copy is truly a property of the correlators rather than of the Schouten basis, it should persist for higher-point parity-odd correlators, where the Chern–Simons amplitude has a known multi-particle generalisation; this could provide a stronger falsifier than the three-point check.
  • The basis-dependence highlighted by the paper suggests that any manifestly five-dimensional covariant rewriting of the CFT flat-space limit that preserves the same leading singularity should also satisfy Eq. (62); checking this would separate a genuine amplitude relation from a tensor-identity artifact.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

5 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper claims a double-copy relation between the chiral anomaly and the type-A (Euler) conformal anomaly in four-dimensional CFT, extending the known factorization of local anomaly densities to complete momentum-space three-point correlators and their five-dimensional flat-space limits. The authors review the chiral-anomaly correlators of Refs. [24,41], derive their flat-space limit as a five-dimensional Chern-Simons amplitude, discuss non-uniqueness of the uplift due to four-dimensional Schouten identities, and compare the squared parity-odd current correlator with the anomaly-controlled sector of the parity-even stress-tensor three-point function. The central statement, Eq. (62), is that the square of the chiral-anomaly correlator equals the c1=0, anomaly-controlled part of <TTT> after taking flat-space limits. The paper also presents double-copy relations for the simpler <JJO> and <TTO> correlators.

Significance. The proposed relation is interesting and, if established, would go beyond the known identity among local anomaly densities [22] by linking complete correlators and their flat-space amplitudes. The paper builds on a solid body of prior work: the anomaly correlators are fixed by independent Ward identities rather than by fitting, the 3K-integral technology is standard, and the comparison with the known flat-space limits of <TTT> from Refs. [27,28] is a sensible strategy. The explicit identification of the chiral-anomaly flat-space limit with a Chern-Simons amplitude is a clean and potentially useful observation. However, the central double-copy identity Eq. (62) is only asserted, not demonstrated, and the current manuscript does not contain the computation that would validate the product of the chiral amplitudes on the CFT kinematic slice. The claim is therefore conditional on a missing derivation, and the prefactor/power inconsistencies noted below must be resolved before the result can be considered established.

major comments (5)
  1. [Section 7, Eq. (62)] The central double-copy identity is asserted rather than derived. Eq. (62) claims that the square of the parity-odd current correlator, after the Schouten rewriting of Eq. (55), equals the anomaly-controlled part of <TTT>. What is missing is an explicit computation showing that the square of the right-hand side of Eq. (55), after restoring the prefactors from Eqs. (51) and (60), is proportional to A_{phi R^2} on the five-dimensional CFT kinematic slice defined in Section 4. This product identity is exactly the double-copy content of the paper, and it is not checked in any representation. The authors should either exhibit the direct algebraic identity or provide a derivation that starts from the four-dimensional correlator solutions in Eqs. (49)-(50) and traces the square through the flat-space limit.
  2. [Eqs. (51), (58), (60), (62)] The powers of E and c123 are inconsistent across the statements used to motivate Eq. (62). Eq. (51) defines the J-side flat-space limit with a factor E^{5/2}/c123^{1/2}, but Eq. (60) quotes the same limit as E^{5/2} without the c123^{-1/2}. Eq. (58) gives the T-side limit as E^{9/2}/c123^{3/2} at c1=0. Squaring the first form gives an E^5 dependence multiplied by 1/c123, whereas the right-hand side of Eq. (62) is written as lim E^{9/2}<TTT> with the c123^{3/2} denominator omitted. Unless these factors are absorbed into the proportionality constants, the two sides of Eq. (62) carry different powers of c123. This is not merely a notational issue: the double-copy claim depends on the precise flat-space normalization, and the authors should state the limits with their full prefactors consistently.
  3. [Section 5.2, Eqs. (54)-(55)] The use of Schouten identities is not sufficiently controlled for the central claim. The identities in Eq. (54) are four-dimensional identities, but they are applied after uplifting to five-dimensional kinematics and then used to rewrite the five-dimensional amplitude. As the authors themselves note in Section 5.2, different choices of the identity lead to different five-dimensional expressions that agree only on the CFT kinematic slice. The product identity behind Eq. (62) must therefore be verified on that slice, not merely asserted for the particular representation of Eq. (55). The paper should either prove that the squared object is independent of the Schouten representation on the slice, or perform the check in the manifestly four-dimensional form of Eq. (51).
  4. [Section 5.1, footnote 4; Eq. (51)] The flat-space limit of the chiral-anomaly correlator is used as the left-hand side of the main double-copy relation, but the paper states in the footnote to Section 5.1 that a consistent renormalization of these parity-odd correlators and their 3K integrals remains an open problem. If the renormalized correlator is not uniquely defined, the flat-space amplitude extracted from it is not unambiguous, and the comparison in Eq. (62) may be scheme-dependent. The authors should clarify whether the leading flat-space singularities used in Eq. (51) are independent of the renormalization ambiguity, or should state the required renormalization prescription explicitly.
  5. [Section 7, after Eq. (61); Eq. (17)] The sector selection c1=0 and the vanishing of the ellipses in Eqs. (20)-(21) and (57) is imposed without a derivation that these are the only terms compatible with the double-copy interpretation. The ellipses denote arbitrary conformally invariant contributions, so the projection onto the anomaly-controlled sector is a choice. The paper should explain why this choice is physically forced, or at least formulate the double-copy claim as a statement about a well-defined projection and show that the projection commutes with the flat-space limit. Without such an argument, the relation in Eq. (62) may only hold for a specially selected set of solutions, rather than for the correlators themselves.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Abstract and Section 1] The abstract states that the flat-space limit of the squared current correlators 'reproduces' the stress-tensor contribution; this overstates the current level of proof, since the relation is asserted in Eq. (62) and not derived. Consider softening the wording to 'is proposed to reproduce' or 'is shown to reproduce' after the missing computation is supplied.
  2. [Section 4, Eq. (28)] The notation A_EG = (A_YM)^2 and A_W^3 = (A_F^3)^2 is used without explicitly indicating that these equalities hold only after stripping overall normalization factors and on the relevant kinematic slice. A short comment would prevent confusion, especially since the five-dimensional amplitudes are introduced later in the same section.
  3. [Section 7, Eq. (62)] The left-hand side of Eq. (62) contains the product <JJJ>odd <JJJ>odd with no indication of how the indices are contracted. A reader needs to know whether the product is taken with the polarization vectors already contracted, as in Eqs. (60) and (61), and whether any trace over polarizations is performed. Please specify the contraction convention.
  4. [Acknowledgements] There is a typo in 'by the the grant PRIN 2022BP52A'; the second 'the' should be removed.
  5. [Section 5, Eq. (44)] The decomposition in Eq. (44) uses p3^2 in the denominator of the longitudinal term; it may be worth noting that this term is understood in the distributional sense, since the Ward identity is applied to on-shell or regulated correlators.

Circularity Check

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No circularity found: the central double-copy identity is asserted rather than derived, but it is not equivalent to its inputs by construction.

full rationale

The paper's chiral-anomaly correlators are fixed by the anomalous and conformal Ward identities, with the solutions quoted from the authors' earlier work [24] but reproduced in Eqs. (49)-(50); this is a parameter-free input whose assumptions do not include the target double-copy relation, so the self-citation is independent support rather than circularity. The stress-tensor flat-space limits in Eq. (58) are taken from the external works [27,28]. The central claim, Eq. (62), is presented as 'Squaring the parity-odd current correlator, we obtain...' without displaying the algebraic identity that the squared Chern-Simons amplitude equals A^{222}_{phi R2}. This is a genuine derivation gap: the product identity is the new physical content and is not derived in the paper. However, a missing or asserted derivation is not the same as circularity: the paper does not fit any parameter to the target, does not define the chiral or conformal correlators in terms of each other, and does not invoke a self-citation to forbid alternative outcomes. The acknowledged Schouten-representation freedom is used to make the double-copy structure manifest, but the paper also states that different representations agree on the CFT kinematic slice, so the choice of basis is not secretly imposing the result. The apparent mismatch of c123 and E powers between Eqs. (51)/(58) and Eq. (62) is a correctness and consistency concern, but it does not make the claimed relation equivalent to its inputs by construction. Overall, the paper's derivation chain is not circular; it is incomplete at the key identity. Accordingly, the circularity score is 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 2 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim does not introduce new fitted constants or new physical entities. The anomaly coefficients a1, b1 and b2 are inputs fixed by the field content, not tuned here. The relation depends on choices: setting c1=0, discarding additional CFT sectors, and adopting a particular Schouten representation. Those choices, not numerical fits, are what the ledger records.

free parameters (2)
  • c1 (homogeneous TTT coefficient) = 0 (selected)
    In Section 7 the authors set c1=0 to isolate the conformal-anomaly contribution; the full correlator contains this independent coefficient.
  • Additional conformally invariant coefficients (ellipses) = 0 (selected)
    In Section 3 and Appendix B, extra finite counterterm and homogeneous terms are discarded; the double-copy relations are valid only in the sector where these vanish.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption The flat-space limit formula for 3K integrals, Eq. (39), and its analytic continuation, Eqs. (35)-(37), correctly capture the renormalised even-dimensional correlators.
    Borrowed from [28]; no proof is repeated, and the parity-odd case with 4d Levi-Civita tensors is an extension.
  • domain assumption The parity-odd current correlators in Eqs. (49)-(50) are the unique solutions of the conformal and anomalous Ward identities.
    Taken from [24] by two of the present authors; no independent derivation is shown here.
  • domain assumption The renormalised TTT form factors in Eq. (57) and their flat-space limits in Eq. (58) are correct.
    Taken from [22,28]; the paper reviews but does not rederive these results.
  • ad hoc to paper The sector selection c1=0 and the vanishing of the ellipses in the correlator solutions isolate the anomaly-controlled contribution in a physically meaningful way.
    This is the paper's choice; without it, the double-copy relation does not hold for the full correlators.
  • ad hoc to paper Any Schouten-identity-related tensor representation of the same 4d correlator may be used for the 5d flat-space limit, and the chosen representation in Eq. (55) is legitimate.
    The paper argues the representations agree on the CFT kinematic slice, but the 5d off-shell extension is not unique; the choice is made to make the double copy manifest.

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abstract

We uncover a double-copy relation between chiral and conformal anomalies in four-dimensional conformal field theory. We show that this relation extends from local anomaly structures to complete momentum-space three-point correlators and, through their flat-space limits, to five-dimensional scattering amplitudes. In particular, the parity-odd current correlators associated with the chiral anomaly reduce, in the flat-space limit, to a universal amplitude generated by a Chern--Simons interaction. Squaring these anomalous current correlators reproduces the contribution to the stress-tensor three-point function $\langle TTT\rangle$, controlled by the conformal anomaly, thereby establishing a direct link between chiral- and conformal-anomaly structures.

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