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Vector model in various dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-07-15 v4

Abstract

We study behaviour of the critical O(N)O(N) vector model with quartic interaction in 2d62 \leq d \leq 6 dimensions to the next-to-leading order in the large-NN expansion. We derive and perform consistency checks that provide an evidence for the existence of a non-trivial fixed point and explore the corresponding CFT. In particular, we use conformal techniques to calculate the multi-loop diagrams up to and including 4 loops in general dimension. These results are used to calculate a new CFT data associated with the three-point function of the Hubbard- Stratonovich field. In 6ϵ6-\epsilon dimensions our results match their counterparts obtained within a proposed alternative description of the model in terms of N+1N+1 massless scalars with cubic interactions. In d=3d=3 we find that the OPE coefficient vanishes up to O(1/N3/2)\mathcal{O}(1/N^{3/2}) order.

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@article{arxiv.1911.08298,
  title  = {Vector model in various dimensions},
  author = {Mikhail Goykhman and Michael Smolkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.08298},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

v2: revisions in section 5, added appendices B, C with more details, minor improvements, references added, v3: improvements in section 5, missing contributions in section 5.B added, additional discussion and references added, v4: published version, references added, discussion extended, formulas simplified

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