General properties of the boundary renormalization group flow for supersymmetric systems in 1+1 dimensions

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2009.V13.N6.A6zbMATH Open1200.81145arXiv0810.0611MaRDI QIDQ601702FDOQ601702

Anatoly Konechny, Daniel Harry Friedan

Publication date: 29 October 2010

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the general supersymmetric one-dimensional quantum system with boundary, critical in the bulk but not at the boundary. The renormalization group flow on the space of boundary conditions is generated by the boundary beta functions �eta^{a}(lambda) for the boundary coupling constants lambda^{a}. We prove a gradient formula partialln z/partiallambda^{a} =-g_{ab}^{S}�eta^{b} where z(lambda) is the boundary partition function at given temperature T=1/�eta, and g_{ab}^{S}(lambda) is a certain positive-definite metric on the space of supersymmetric boundary conditions. The proof depends on canonical ultraviolet behavior at the boundary. Any system whose short distance behavior is governed by a fixed point satisfies this requirement. The gradient formula implies that the boundary energy, -partialln z/partial�eta = -T�eta^{a}partial_{a}ln z, is nonnegative. Equivalently, the quantity ln z(lambda) decreases under the renormalization group flow.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.0611

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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