A review of the 1/N expansion in random tensor models

DOI10.1142/9789814449243_0067zbMATH Open1302.81138arXiv1209.3252OpenAlexW2144818743MaRDI QIDQ2929317FDOQ2929317

Authors: R. Gurau 

Publication date: 11 November 2014

Published in: XVIIth International Congress on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Matrix models are a highly successful framework for the analytic study of random two dimensional surfaces with applications to quantum gravity in two dimensions, string theory, conformal field theory, statistical physics in random geometry, etc. Their success relies crucially on the so called 1/N expansion introduced by 't Hooft. In higher dimensions matrix models generalize to tensor models. In the absence of a viable 1/N expansion tensor models have for a long time been less successful in providing an analytically controlled theory of random higher dimensional topological spaces. This situation has drastically changed recently. Models for a generic complex tensor have been shown to admit a 1/N expansion dominated by graphs of spherical topology in arbitrary dimensions and to undergo a phase transition to a continuum theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3252

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zbMATH Keywords

\(1/N\) expansioncritical behaviorrandom tensors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random matrices (algebraic aspects) (15B52) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Feynman diagrams (81T18)

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