Renormalisation group analysis of 4D spin models and self-avoiding walk

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Authors Roland Bauerschmidt, David Brydges, Gordon Slade

Publication date 12 February 2016

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28)

Abstract: We give an overview of results on critical phenomena in 4 dimensions, obtained recently using a rigorous renormalisation group method. In particular, for the $n$-component $|varphi{|}^4$ spin model in dimension 4, with small coupling constant, we prove that the susceptibility diverges with a logarithmic correction to the mean-field behaviour with exponent $(n+2)/(n+8)$. This result extends rigorously to $n=0$, interpreted as a supersymmetric version of the model that represents exactly the continuous-time weakly self-avoiding walk. We also analyse the critical two-point function of the weakly self-avoiding walk, the specific heat and pressure of the $|varphi{|}^4$ model, as well as scaling limits of the spin field close to the critical point.

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