Renormalisation group flow and geodesics in the O(N) model for large N.

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00457-XMaRDI QIDQ1570587zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brian P. Dolan

Publication date 11 July 2000

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702156

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17)

Abstract: A metric is introduced on the space of parameters (couplings) describing the large N limit of the O(N) model in Euclidean space. The geometry associated with this metric is analysed in the particular case of the infinite volume limit in 3 dimensions and it is shown that the Ricci curvature diverges at the ultra-violet (Gaussian) fixed point but is finite and tends to constant negative curvature at the infra-red (Wilson-Fisher) fixed point. The renormalisation group flow is examined in terms of geodesics of the metric. The critical line of cross-over from the Wilson-Fisher fixed point to the Gaussian fixed point is shown to be a geodesic but all other renormalisation group trajectories, which are repulsed from the Gaussian fixed point in the ultra-violet, are not geodesics. The geodesic flow is interpreted in terms of a maximisation principle for the relative entropy.

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