Resurgence and dynamics of O(N) and Grassmannian sigma models

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2015)199MaRDI QIDQ2635904zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gerald V. Dunne, Mithat Ünsal

Publication date 31 May 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07803

zbMATH Keywords

field theories in lower dimensionsnonperturbative effectssigma models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

Abstract: We study the non-perturbative dynamics of the two dimensional $O(N)$ and Grassmannian sigma models by using compactification with twisted boundary conditions on $mathbbRimes{S}^1$, semi-classical techniques and resurgence. While the $O(N)$ model has no instantons for $N>3$, it has (non-instanton) saddles on $mathbb{R}^2$, which we call 2d-saddles. On $mathbbRimes{S}^1$, the resurgent relation between perturbation theory and non-perturbative physics is encoded in new saddles, which are associated with the affine root system of the $frako(N)$ algebra. These events may be viewed as fractionalizations of the 2d-saddles. The first beta function coefficient, given by the dual Coxeter number, can then be intepreted as the sum of the multiplicities (dual Kac labels) of these fractionalized objects. Surprisingly, the new saddles in $O(N)$ models in compactified space are in one-to-one correspondence with monopole-instanton saddles in $SO(N)$ gauge theory on $mathbb{R}^{3}imes{S}^1$. The Grassmannian sigma models $mGr(N,M)$ have 2d instantons, which fractionalize into $N$ kink-instantons. The small circle dynamics of both sigma models can be described as a dilute gas of the one-events and two-events, bions. One-events are the leading source of a variety of non-perturbative effects, and produce the strong scale of the 2d theory in the compactified theory. We show that in both types of sigma models the neutral bion emulates the role of IR-renormalons. We also study the topological theta angle dependence in both the $O(3)$ model and $mGr(N,M)$, and describe the multi-branched structure of the observables in terms of the theta-angle dependence of the saddle amplitudes.

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