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Critical scaling for spectral functions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-06-12 v1

Abstract

We study real-time scalar ϕ4\phi^4-theory in 2+1 dimensions near criticality. Specifically, we compute the single-particle spectral function and that of the ss-channel four-point function in and outside the scaling regime. The computation is done with the spectral functional Callan-Symanzik equation, which exhibits manifest Lorentz invariance and preserves causality. We extract the scaling exponent η\eta from the spectral function and compare our result with that from a Euclidean fixed point analysis.

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@article{arxiv.2506.09142,
  title  = {Critical scaling for spectral functions},
  author = {Konrad Kockler and Jan M. Pawlowski and Jonas Wessely},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.09142},
  year   = {2025}
}

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17 pages, 7 figures

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