Clues on chemical mechanisms from renormalizability: the example of a noisy cubic autocatalytic model

Abstract: We study the effect of noise on the renormalizability of a specific reaction-diffusion system of equations describing a cubic autocatalytic chemical reaction. The noise we are using is gaussian with power-law correlations in space, characterized by an amplitude

A

and a noise exponent

y

. We show that changing the noise exponent is equivalent to the substitution

d_{s} i g h t a r r o w d_{m e f f} = d_{s} - y

and thus modifies the divergence structure of loop integrals (

d_{s}

is the dimension of space). The model is renormalizable at one-loop for

d_{m e f f} < 6

and nonrenormalizable for

d_{m e f f} g e q 6

. The effects of noise-generated higher order interactions are discussed. In particular, we show how noise induces new interaction terms that can be interpreted as a manifestation of some (internal) "chemical mechanism". We also show how ideas of effective field theory can be applied to construct a more fundamental chemical model for this system.

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