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We construct a generalization of the cyclic $\lambda$-deformed models of \cite{Georgiou:2017oly} by relaxing the requirement that all the WZW models should have the same level $k$. Our theories are integrable and flow from a single UV point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-11 George Georgiou , Georgios P. D. Pappas , Konstantinos Sfetsos

The generalized Wilson loop operator interpolating between the supersymmetric and the ordinary Wilson loop in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM theory provides an interesting example of renormalization group flow on a line defect: the scalar coupling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-22 Matteo Beccaria , Simone Giombi , Arkady Tseytlin

We consider a composite defect system where a lower-dimensional defect (sub-defect) is embedded to a higher-dimensional one, and examine renormalization group (RG) flows localized on the defect. A composite defect is constructed in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-11 Dongsheng Ge , Tatsuma Nishioka , Soichiro Shimamori

Critical behaviour of the O(n)-symmetric $\phi^{4}$-model with an antisymmetric tensor order parameter is studied by means of the field-theoretic renormalization group (RG) in the leading order of the $\varepsilon=4-d$-expansion (one-loop…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-01 N. V. Antonov , M. V. Kompaniets , N. M. Lebedev

The gradient property of the renormalisation group (RG) flow of multiscalar theories is examined perturbatively in $d=4$ and $d=4-\varepsilon$ dimensions. Such theories undergo RG flows in the space of quartic couplings $\lambda^I$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-08 William H. Pannell , Andreas Stergiou

We consider a general scalar QFT with a linear defect in $D=4-\epsilon$ and a surface defect in $D=6-\epsilon$. Using holography and the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism, we show that the $\beta$ functions controlling the defect RG flow are the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-21 I. Carreño Bolla , Diego Rodriguez-Gomez , J. G. Russo

We study gauging operations (or group extensions) in (smeared) boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs) and bulk conformal field theories, and their applications to various phenomena in topologically ordered systems. We apply the resultant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-22 Yoshiki Fukusumi

We study bulk RG flows in the context of TQFTs and show how IR theories can be entirely represented within the respective UV theories by means of codimension-one projection defects. What is more, RG flows of the bulk theory can be described…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-17 Fabian Klos , Daniel Roggenkamp

A conformal field theory (CFT) in dimension $d\geq 3$ coupled to a planar, two-dimensional, conformal defect is characterized in part by a "central charge" $b$ that multiplies the Euler density in the defect's Weyl anomaly. For defect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-09 Kristan Jensen , Andy O'Bannon

In this letter we study renormalization group (RG) flows between 2d conformal field theories enjoying extended higher-spin $\mathcal{W}$-symmetry. We propose a new class of RG flows between the diagonal minimal models of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Federico Ambrosino , Tomáš Procházka

Direct verification of the existence of an infinite set of multicritical non-perturbative FPs (Fixed Points) for a single scalar field in two dimensions, is in practice well outside the capabilities of the present standard approximate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Tim R. Morris

Conformal field theory (CFT) is an extremely powerful tool for explicitly computing critical exponents and correlation functions of statistical mechanics systems at a second order phase transition, or of condensed matter systems at a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Alessandro Giuliani

We employ perturbative RG and $\epsilon$-expansion to study multi-critical single-scalar field theories with higher derivative kinetic terms of the form $\phi(-\Box)^k\phi$. We focus on those with a $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetric critical point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-21 Mahmoud Safari , Gian Paolo Vacca

Using results of the thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz approach and conformal perturbation theory we argue that the $\phi_{1,3}$-perturbation of a unitary minimal $(1+1)$-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) in the $D$-series of modular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Timothy R. Klassen , Ezer Melzer

According to recent arguments by the author, the conformal field theory (CFT) describing the scaling limit of the integer quantum Hall plateau transition is a deformed level-4 Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten model with Riemannian target space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Martin R. Zirnbauer

We study renormalization group flows between six-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs) using their geometric realizations as singular limits of F-theory compactified on elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds. There are two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-27 Jonathan J. Heckman , David R. Morrison , Tom Rudelius , Cumrun Vafa

Interpreting renormalization group flows as solitons interpolating between different fixed points, we ask various questions that are normally asked in soliton physics but not in renormalization theory. Can one count RG flows? Are there…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Sergei Gukov

The field theoretic renormalization group (RG) is applied to the model of a near-equilibrium fluid coupled to a scalar field (like temperature or density of an impurity) which is active, that is, influencing the dynamics of the fluid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-15 N. V. Antonov , M. M. Kostenko

Recently Gaiotto [1] considered conformal defects which produce an expansion of infrared local fields in terms of the ultraviolet ones for a given renormalization group flow. In this paper we propose that for a boundary RG flow in two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Anatoly Konechny

Renormalization Group (RG) techniques have been successfully employed in quantum field theory and statistical physics. Here we apply RG methods to study the non-linear stages of structure formation in the Universe. Exact equations for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Sabino Matarrese , Massimo Pietroni