NONPERTURBATIVE DOUBLE SCALING LIMITS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X03012424MaRDI QIDQ4803931zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Frank Ferrari

Publication date 18 March 2004

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0202205

zbMATH Keywords

gauge theorypolymersrandom surfacesnonlinear \(\sigma\) modelnon-critical string theory(path)-integralsmatrix and vector modelsnon-Borel summable cases

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

Abstract: Recently, the author has proposed a generalization of the matrix and vector models approach to the theory of random surfaces and polymers. The idea is to replace the simple matrix or vector (path) integrals by gauge theory or non-linear sigma model (path) integrals. We explain how this solves one of the most fundamental limitation of the classic approach: we automatically obtain non-perturbative definitions in non-Borel summable cases. This is exemplified on the simplest possible examples involving O(N) symmetric non-linear sigma models with N-dimensional target spaces, for which we construct (multi)critical metrics. The non-perturbative definitions of the double scaled, manifestly positive, partition functions rely on remarkable identities involving (path) integrals.

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