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Finite Size Scaling for O(N) phi^4-Theory at the Upper Critical Dimension

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2016-09-01 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

A finite size scaling theory for the partition function zeros and thermodynamic functions of O(N) phi^4-theory in four dimensions is derived from renormalization group methods. The leading scaling behaviour is mean-field like with multiplicative logarithmic corrections which are linked to the triviality of the theory. These logarithmic corrections are independent of N for odd thermodynamic quantities and associated zeros and are N dependent for the even ones. Thus a numerical study of finite size scaling in the Ising model serves as a non-perturbative test of triviality of phi^4_4-theories for all N.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0405023,
  title  = {Finite Size Scaling for O(N) phi^4-Theory at the Upper Critical Dimension},
  author = {R. Kenna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0405023},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

14 pages, no figures. To appear in Nucl. Phys. B