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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2021)044
Keywords
Lattice Quantum Field Theory; Renormalization Group
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- Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH) [KKP126769]
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The study investigates the most general perturbatively renormalizable theory of vector fields in four dimensions with a global SU(N) symmetry and massless couplings. The calculation of the RG flow to 1-loop reveals a rich phase diagram, demonstrating the existence of a finite number of asymptotically free RG-flows with non-trivial fixed points. However, none of these fixed points correspond to gauge theories.
We consider the most general perturbatively renormalizable theory of vector fields in four dimensions with a global SU(N) symmetry and massless couplings. The Lagrangian contains 1 quadratic, 2 cubic and 4 quartic couplings. The RG flow among this set of 7 couplings is computed to 1-loop and a rich phase diagram is mapped out; in particular it is shown that a finite number of asymptotically free RG-flows exist corresponding to non-trivial fixed points for the ratios of the couplings. None of these are gauge theories, i.e. possess only global SU(N) invariance but not a local one. We also include the most general ghost couplings, still with global SU(N) invariance, and compute the RG flow to 1-loop for all 9 resulting couplings. Again asymptotically free RG flows exist with non-trivial fixed points for the ratios of couplings. It is shown that Yang-Mills theory emerges at a particular fixed point. The theories at the other fixed points are marginally relevant gauge symmetry violating perturbations of Yang-Mills theory. The large-N limit is also investigated in detail.
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