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arxiv: 1707.06165 · v7 · pith:IHMDWC7Snew · submitted 2017-07-19 · ✦ hep-th · cond-mat.stat-mech

Seeking Fixed Points in Multiple Coupling Scalar Theories in the varepsilon Expansion

classification ✦ hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech
keywords pointsfixedvarepsiloncasedimensionalexpansionscalartheories
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Fixed points for scalar theories in $4-\varepsilon$, $6-\varepsilon$ and $3-\varepsilon$ dimensions are discussed. It is shown how a large range of known fixed points for the four dimensional case can be obtained by using a general framework with two couplings. The original maximal symmetry, $O(N)$, is broken to various subgroups, both discrete and continuous. A similar discussion is applied to the six dimensional case. Perturbative applications of the $a$-theorem are used to help classify potential fixed points. At lowest order in the $\varepsilon$-expansion it is shown that at fixed points there is a lower bound for $a$ which is saturated at bifurcation points.

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