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Multicritical hypercubic models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-04-08 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We study renormalization group multicritical fixed points in the ϵ\epsilon-expansion of scalar field theories characterized by the symmetry of the (hyper)cubic point group HNH_N. After reviewing the algebra of HNH_N-invariant polynomials and arguing that there can be an entire family of multicritical (hyper)cubic solutions with ϕ2n\phi^{2n} interactions in d=2nn1ϵd=\frac{2n}{n-1}-\epsilon dimensions, we use the general multicomponent beta functionals formalism to study the special cases d=3ϵd = 3-\epsilon and d=83ϵd =\frac{8}{3}-\epsilon, deriving explicitly the beta functions describing the flow of three- and four-critical (hyper)cubic models. We perform a study of their fixed points, critical exponents and quadratic deformations for various values of NN, including the limit N=0N=0, that was reported in another paper in relation to the randomly diluted single-spin models, and an analysis of the large NN limit, which turns out to be particularly interesting since it depends on the specific multicriticality. We see that, in general, the continuation in NN of the random solutions is different from the continuation coming from large-NN, and only the latter interpolates with the physically interesting cases of low-NN such as N=3N=3. Finally, we also include an analysis of a theory with quintic interactions in d=103ϵd =\frac{10}{3}-\epsilon and, for completeness, the NNLO computations in d=4ϵd=4-\epsilon.

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@article{arxiv.2104.03118,
  title  = {Multicritical hypercubic models},
  author = {Riccardo Ben Alì Zinati and Alessandro Codello and Omar Zanusso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.03118},
  year   = {2021}
}