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High-Gradient Operators in the psl(2|2) Gross-Neveu Model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-20 v1

Abstract

It has been observed more than 25 years ago that sigma model perturbation theory suffers from strongly RG-relevant high-gradient operators. The phenomenon was first seen in 1-loop calculations for the O(N) vector model and it is known to persist at least to two loops. More recently, Ryu et al. suggested that a certain deformation of the psl(N|N) WZNW-model at level k = 1, or equivalently the psl(N|N) Gross-Neveu model, could be free of RG-relevant high-gradient operators and they tested their suggestion to leading order in perturbation theory. In this note we establish the absence of strongly RG-relevant high-gradient operators in the psl(2|2) Gross-Neveu model to all loops. In addition, we determine the spectrum for a large subsector of the model at infinite coupling and observe that all scaling weights become half-integer. Evidence for a conjectured relation with the CP^1|2 sigma model is not found.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1410.4560,
  title  = {High-Gradient Operators in the psl(2|2) Gross-Neveu Model},
  author = {Alessandra Cagnazzo and Volker Schomerus and Václav Tlapák},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.4560},
  year   = {2015}
}

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14 pages

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