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Perturbative dynamics on fuzzy S^2 and RP^2

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

By considering scalar theories on the fuzzy sphere as matrix models, we construct a renormalization scheme and calculate the one-loop effective action. Because of UV-IR mixing, the two- and the four-point correlators at low energy are not slowly varying functions of external momenta. Interestingly, we also find that field theories on fuzzy RP^2 avoid UV-IR mixing and hence are much more like conventional field theories. We calculate the one-loop beta-function for the O(N) theory on fuzzy RP^2 at large N and show that in addition to the trivial one, it has a nontrivial fixed point that is accessible in perturbation theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0102212,
  title  = {Perturbative dynamics on fuzzy S^2 and RP^2},
  author = {Sachindeo Vaidya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0102212},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages, LaTex2e

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