Limit cycles in four dimensions

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2012)112MaRDI QIDQ1796224zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean-François Fortin, Benjamín Grinstein, Andreas Stergiou

Publication date 16 October 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.2921

zbMATH Keywords

renormalization groupconformal and W symmetryspace-time symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15)

Abstract: We present an example of a limit cycle, i.e., a recurrent flow-line of the beta-function vector field, in a unitary four-dimensional gauge theory. We thus prove that beta functions of four-dimensional gauge theories do not produce gradient flows. The limit cycle is established in perturbation theory with a three-loop calculation which we describe in detail.

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