Strong coupling universality at large N for pure CFT thermodynamics in 2+1 dimensions

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2019)272MaRDI QIDQ2283550zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Oliver DeWolfe, Paul Romatschke

Publication date 2 January 2020

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.06355

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryfield theories in lower dimensionsnonperturbative effectsthermal field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: Pure CFTs have vanishing $$-function at any value of the coupling. One example of a pure CFT is the O(N) Wess-Zumino model in 2+1 dimensions in the large N limit. This model can be analytically solved at finite temperature for any value of the coupling, and we find that its entropy density at strong coupling is exactly equal to 31/35 of the non-interacting Stefan-Boltzmann result. We show that a large class of theories with equal numbers of N-component fermions and bosons, supersymmetric or not, for a large class of interactions, exhibit the same universal ratio. For unequal numbers of fermions and bosons we find that the strong-weak thermodynamic ratio is bounded to lie in between 4/5 and 1.

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