Why are all dualities conformal? Theory and practical consequences

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2014.12.026MaRDI QIDQ901981zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Z. Nussinov, Gerardo Ortiz, Mohammad-Sadegh Vaezi

Publication date 6 January 2016

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/1311.6711

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Series expansions (e.g., Taylor, Lidstone series, but not Fourier series) (41A58) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40)

Abstract: We relate duality mappings to the "Babbage equation" F(F(z)) = z, with F a map linking weak- to strong-coupling theories. Under fairly general conditions F may only be a specific conformal transformation of the fractional linear type. This deep general result has enormous practical consequences. For example, one can establish that weak- and strong- coupling series expansions of arbitrarily large finite size systems are trivially related, i.e., after generating one of those series the other is automatically determined through a set of linear constraints between the series coefficients. This latter relation partially solve or, equivalently, localize the computational complexity of evaluating the series expansion to a simple fraction of those coefficients. As a bonus, those relations also encode non-trivial equalities between different geometric constructions in general dimensions, and connect derived coefficients to polytope volumes. We illustrate our findings by examining various models including, but not limited to, ferromagnetic and spin-glass Ising, and Ising gauge type theories on hypercubic lattices in 1< D <9 dimensions.

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