Irreversibility of world-sheet renormalization group flow

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2005.01.077zbMATH Open1247.81310arXivhep-th/0410001OpenAlexW2032459304MaRDI QIDQ451622FDOQ451622

Todd Andrew Oliynyk, Eric Woolgar, Vardarajan Suneeta

Publication date: 23 September 2012

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We demonstrate the irreversibility of a wide class of world-sheet renormalization group (RG) flows to first order in $alph{a}^{\prime }$ in string theory. Our techniques draw on the mathematics of Ricci flows, adapted to asymptotically flat target manifolds. In the case of somewhere-negative scalar curvature (of the target space), we give a proof by constructing an entropy that increases monotonically along the flow, based on Perelman's Ricci flow entropy. One consequence is the absence of periodic solutions, and we are able to give a second, direct proof of this. If the scalar curvature is everywhere positive, we instead construct a regularized volume to provide an entropy for the flow. Our results are, in a sense, the analogue of Zamolodchikov's $c$-theorem for world-sheet RG flows on noncompact spacetimes (though our entropy is not the Zamolodchikov $C$-function).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0410001

zbMATH Keywords

Perelman's Ricci flow entropyworld-sheet renormalization group flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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• Stability of the (two-loop) renormalization group flow for nonlinear sigma models
• Off-shell strings. I: S-matrix and action
• Reduction of coupling constants in two-dimensional sigma models
• First eigenvalues of geometric operators under the Ricci flow
• Estimate and monotonicity of the first eigenvalue under the Ricci flow
• Entanglement entropy and the Ricci flow
• A proof of the irreversibility of renormalization group flows in four dimensions
• Geometric flows and supersymmetry
• The Higgs mechanism and geometrical flows for two-manifolds
• The long flow to freedom

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