RG flows in the D-series of minimal CFTs

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(93)90415-LMaRDI QIDQ1966041zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Timothy R. Klassen, Ezer Melzer

Publication date 5 March 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9110047

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: Using results of the thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz approach and conformal perturbation theory we argue that the $ph{i}_{1,3}$-perturbation of a unitary minimal $(1+1)$-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) in the $D$-series of modular invariant partition functions induces a renormalization group (RG) flow to the next-lower model in the $D$-series. An exception is the first model in the series, the 3-state Potts CFT, which under the $$-even $ph{i}_{1,3}$-perturbation flows to the tricritical Ising CFT, the second model in the $A$-series. We present arguments that in the $A$-series flow corresponding to this exceptional case, interpolating between the tetracritical and the tricritical Ising CFT, the IR fixed point is approached from ``exactly the opposite direction. Our results indicate how (most of) the relevant conformal fields evolve from the UV to the IR CFT.

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