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Weighted scale invariant quantum field theories

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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 2, Pages -

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/02/051

Keywords

1/N expansion; sigma models; nonperturbative effects; conformal and W symmetry

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We study a class of Lorentz violating quantum field theories that contain higher space derivatives, but no higher time derivatives, and become renormalizable in the large N expansion. The fixed points of their renormalization-group flows provide examples of exactly weighted scale invariant theories, which are noticeable Lorentz violating generalizations of conformal field theories. We classify the scalar and fermion models that are causal, stable and unitary. Solutions exist also in four and higher dimensions, even and odd. In some explicit four dimensional examples, we compute the correlation functions to the leading order in 1/N and the critical exponents to the subleading order. We construct also RG flows interpolating between pairs of fixed points.

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