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Universal scaling dimensions for highly irrelevant operators in the Local Potential Approximation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-11-15 v2

Abstract

We study dd-dimensional scalar field theory in the Local Potential Approximation of the functional renormalization group. Sturm-Liouville methods allow the eigenoperator equation to be cast as a Schrodinger-type equation. Combining solutions in the large field limit with the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation, we solve analytically for the scaling dimension dnd_n of high dimension potential-type operators On(φ)\mathcal{O}_n(\varphi) around a non-trivial fixed point. We find that dn=n(ddφ)d_n = n(d-d_\varphi) to leading order in nn as nn \to \infty, where dφ=12(d2+η)d_\varphi=\frac{1}{2}(d-2+\eta) is the scaling dimension of the field, φ\varphi, and determine the power-law growth of the subleading correction. For O(N)O(N) invariant scalar field theory, the scaling dimension is just double this, for all fixed N0N\geq0 and additionally for N=2,4,.N=-2,-4,\ldots \,. These results are universal, independent of the choice of cutoff function which we keep general throughout, subject only to some weak constraints.

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@article{arxiv.2306.14643,
  title  = {Universal scaling dimensions for highly irrelevant operators in the Local Potential Approximation},
  author = {Vlad-Mihai Mandric and Tim R. Morris and Dalius Stulga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.14643},
  year   = {2023}
}

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23 pages, no figures. Clarifications added. Version published in PRD

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