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Strong Coupling Universality at Large N for Pure CFT Thermodynamics in 2+1 dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-01-08 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Pure CFTs have vanishing β\beta-function at any value of the coupling. One example of a pure CFT is the O(N) Wess-Zumino model in 2+1 dimensions in the large N limit. This model can be analytically solved at finite temperature for any value of the coupling, and we find that its entropy density at strong coupling is exactly equal to 31/35 of the non-interacting Stefan-Boltzmann result. We show that a large class of theories with equal numbers of N-component fermions and bosons, supersymmetric or not, for a large class of interactions, exhibit the same universal ratio. For unequal numbers of fermions and bosons we find that the strong-weak thermodynamic ratio is bounded to lie in between 4/5 and 1.

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@article{arxiv.1905.06355,
  title  = {Strong Coupling Universality at Large N for Pure CFT Thermodynamics in 2+1 dimensions},
  author = {Oliver DeWolfe and Paul Romatschke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.06355},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

11 pages, 2 figures; v2: references added