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Zamalodchikov's C-Theorem and The Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v3

Abstract

We consider perturbation of a conformal field theory by a pair of relevant logarithmic operators and calculate the beta function up to two loops. We observe that the beta function can not be derived from a potential. Thus the renormalization group trajectories are not always along decreasing values of the central charge. However there exists a domain of structure constants in which the c-theorem still holds.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9707060,
  title  = {Zamalodchikov's C-Theorem and The Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory},
  author = {M. R. Rahimi Tabar and S. Rouhani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9707060},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, latex, no figures, some references are added, The role of coefficients of the OPE in LCFT on the beta-functions are disscused