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New Integrable RG flows with Parafermions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-07-11 v2

Abstract

We consider irrelevant deformations of massless RSOS scattering theories by an infinite number of higher TTbar_{s+1} operators which introduce extra non-trivial CDD factors between left-movers and right-movers. It is shown that the resulting theories can be UV complete after bypassing typical Hagedorn-like singularities if the coefficients of the deformations are fine-tuned. In this way, we have discovered that only two new UV complete QFTs are associated with a M_p (p=3,4,...) minimal CFT based on the integrable structure of the RSOS scattering theory. One is the massless Z_{p-1} parafermionic sinh-Gordon models (PShG) with a self-dual coupling constant. This correspondence is confirmed by showing that the scale-dependent vacuum energies computed by the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz based on the S-matrices match those from the quantization conditions for the PShG models using the reflection amplitudes. The other UV QFT is reached from M_p by following the roaming trajectory of the Z_{p-1} parafermionic minimal series.

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@article{arxiv.2407.06582,
  title  = {New Integrable RG flows with Parafermions},
  author = {Changrim Ahn and Zoltan Bajnok},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.06582},
  year   = {2024}
}

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25 pages, 8 figures

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