Field theories for loop-erased random walks

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2019.114696MaRDI QIDQ2295565zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors K. J. Wiese, A. A. Fedorenko

Publication date 13 February 2020

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08830

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Anomalous diffusion models (subdiffusion, superdiffusion, continuous-time random walks, etc.) (60K50) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41)

Abstract: Self-avoiding walks (SAWs) and loop-erased random walks (LERWs) are two ensembles of random paths with numerous applications in mathematics, statistical physics and quantum field theory. While SAWs are described by the $no0$ limit of $ph{i}^4$-theory with $O(n)$-symmetry, LERWs have no obvious field-theoretic description. We analyse two candidates for a field theory of LERWs, and discover a connection between the corresponding and a priori unrelated theories. The first such candidate is the $O(n)$-symmetric $ph{i}^4$ theory at $n=-2$ whose link to LERWs was known in two dimensions due to conformal field theory. Here it is established in arbitrary dimension via a perturbation expansion in the coupling constant. The second candidate is a field theory for charge-density waves pinned by quenched disorder, whose relation to LERWs had been conjectured earlier using analogies with Abelian sandpiles. We explicitly show that both theories yield identical results to 4-loop order and give both a perturbative and a non-perturbative proof of their equivalence. This allows us to compute the fractal dimension of LERWs to order $epsilo{n}^5$ where $epsilon=4-d$. In particular, in $d=3$ our theory gives $z_{mLERW}(d=3)=1.6243pm0.001$, in excellent agreement with the estimate $z=1.62400pm0.00005$ of numerical simulations.

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