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Lifshitz-point critical behaviour to ${\boldsymbol{O(\epsilon^2)}}$

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We comment on a recent letter by L. C. de Albuquerque and M. M. Leite (J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 34 (2001) L327-L332), in which results to second order in ϵ=4d+m2\epsilon=4-d+\frac{m}{2} were presented for the critical exponents νL2\nu_{{\mathrm{L}}2}, ηL2\eta_{{\mathrm{L}}2} and γL2\gamma_{{\mathrm{L}}2} of d-dimensional systems at m-axial Lifshitz points. We point out that their results are at variance with ours. The discrepancy is due to their incorrect computation of momentum-space integrals. Their speculation that the field-theoretic renormalization group approach, if performed in position space, might give results different from when it is performed in momentum space is refuted.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0106502,
  title  = {Lifshitz-point critical behaviour to ${\boldsymbol{O(\epsilon^2)}}$},
  author = {H. W. Diehl and M. Shpot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0106502},
  year   = {2009}
}

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