Scaling in landscape erosion: renormalization group analysis of a model with infinitely many couplings

DOI10.1134/S0040577917020027MaRDI QIDQ2014438zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors N. V. Antonov, P. I. Kakin

Publication date 25 August 2017

Published in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00432

zbMATH Keywords

renormalization groupturbulencecritical behaviorscaling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geological problems (86A60) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

Abstract: Standard field theoretic renormalization group is applied to the model of landscape erosion introduced by R. Pastor-Satorras and D. H. Rothman [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80: 4349 (1998); J. Stat. Phys. 93: 477 (1998)] yielding unexpected results: the model is multiplicatively renormalizable only if it involves infinitely many coupling constants ( i.e., the corresponding renormalization group equations involve infinitely many beta-functions). Despite this fact, the one-loop counterterm can be derived albeit in a closed form in terms of the certain function $V(h)$, entering the original stochastic equation, and its derivatives with respect to the height field $h$. Its Taylor expansion gives rise to the full infinite set of the one-loop renormalization constants, beta-functions and anomalous dimensions. Instead of a set of fixed points, there is a two-dimensional surface of fixed points that is likely to contain infrared attractive region(s). If that is the case, the model exhibits scaling behaviour in the infrared range. The corresponding critical exponents are nonuniversal through the dependence on the coordinates of the fixed point on the surface, but satisfy certain universal exact relations.

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