English

On Intersecting Conformal Defects

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-03-03 v4 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We study the physics of 2 and 3 mutually intersecting conformal defects forming wedges and corners in general dimension. For 2 defects we derive the beta function of the edge interactions for infinite and semi-infinite wedges and study them in the tricritical model in d=3ϵd=3-\epsilon as an example. We discuss the dependency of the edge anomalous dimension on the intersection angle, connecting to an old issue known in the literature. Additionally, we study trihedral corners formed by 3 planes and compute the corner anomalous dimension, which can be considered as a higher-dimensional analog of the cusp anomalous dimension. We also study 3-line corners related to the three-body potential of point-like impurities.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2411.14543,
  title  = {On Intersecting Conformal Defects},
  author = {Tom Shachar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.14543},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

29 pages, 5 figures. Corrected a sign error in eqs. (2.31),(2.32) and the affected quantities. There are no changes to results and conclusions