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Leading order CFT analysis of multi-scalar theories in d>2

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-05-01 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We investigate multi-field multicritical scalar theories using CFT constraints on two- and three-point functions combined with the Schwinger-Dyson equation. This is done in general and without assuming any symmetry for the models, which we just define to admit a Landau-Ginzburg description that includes the most general critical interactions built from monomials of the form ϕi1ϕim\phi_{i_1} \cdots \phi_{i_m}. For all such models we analyze to the leading order of the ϵ\epsilon-expansion the anomalous dimensions of the fields and those of the composite quadratic operators. For models with even mm we extend the analysis to an infinite tower of composite operators of arbitrary order. The results are supplemented by the computation of some families of structure constants. We also find the equations which constrain the nontrivial critical theories at leading order and show that they coincide with the ones obtained with functional perturbative RG methods. This is done for the case m=3m=3 as well as for all the even models. We ultimately specialize to SqS_q symmetric models, which are related to the qq-state Potts universality class, and focus on three realizations appearing below the upper critical dimensions 66, 44 and 103\frac{10}{3}, which can thus be nontrivial CFTs in three dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.1809.05071,
  title  = {Leading order CFT analysis of multi-scalar theories in d>2},
  author = {Alessandro Codello and Mahmoud Safari and Gian Paolo Vacca and Omar Zanusso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.05071},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

58 pages; v2: minor clarifications added, to appear in EPJC