A New Class of Conformal Field Theories with Anomalous Dimensions

DOI10.1143/PTP.109.751MaRDI QIDQ4814050zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Etsuko Itou, Kiyoshi Higashijima

Publication date 7 September 2004

Published in Progress of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0302090

zbMATH Keywords

anomalous dimensionrenormalization groupsupersymmetric nonlinear \(\sigma\) model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kähler manifolds (32Q15) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: The Wilsonian renormalization group (WRG) equation is used to derive a new class of scale invariant field theories with nonvanishing anomalous dimensions in 2-dimensional $calN=2$ supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models. When the coordinates of the target manifolds have nontrivial anomalous dimensions, vanishing of the $$ function suggest the existence of novel conformal field theories whose target space is not Ricci flat. We construct such conformal field theories with $$ symmetry. The theory has one free parameter a corresponding to the anomalous dimension of the scalar fields. The new conformal field theories are well behaved for positive a and have the central charge 3N, while they have curvature singularities at the boundary for a<0. When the target space is of complex 1-dimension, we obtain the explicit form of the Lagrangian, which reduces to two different kinds of free field theories in weak and in strong coupling limit. As a consistency test, the anomalous dimensions are reproduced in these two limits. The target space in this case looks like a semi-infinite cigar with one-dimension compactified to a circle.

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