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The Loom for General Fishnet CFTs

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-06-28 v1

Abstract

We propose a broad class of dd-dimensional conformal field theories of SU(N)SU(N) adjoint scalar fields generalising the 4dd Fishnet CFT (FCFT) discovered by \"O. G\"urdogan and one of the authors as a special limit of γ\gamma-deformed N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM theory. In the planar NN\to\infty limit the FCFTs are dominated by the ``fishnet" planar Feynman graphs. These graphs are explicitly integrable, as was shown long ago by A. Zamolodchikov. The Zamolodchikov's construction, based on the dual Baxter lattice (straight lines on the plane intersecting at arbitrary slopes) and the star-triangle identities, can serve as a ``loom" for ``weaving" the Feynman graphs of these FCFTs, with certain types of propagators, at any dd. The Baxter lattice with MM different slopes and any number of lines parallel to those, generates an FCFT consisting of M(M1)M(M-1) fields and a certain number of chiral vertices of different valences with distinguished couplings. These non-unitary, logarithmic CFTs enjoy certain reality properties for their spectrum due to a symmetry similar to the PT-invariance of non-hermitian hamiltonians proposed by C. Bender. We discuss in more detail the theories generated by a loom with M=2,3,4M=2,3,4, and the generalisation of the loom FCFTs for spinning fields in 4dd.

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@article{arxiv.2212.09732,
  title  = {The Loom for General Fishnet CFTs},
  author = {Vladimir Kazakov and Enrico Olivucci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.09732},
  year   = {2023}
}

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35 pages, 21 figures

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