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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 108, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.085013
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This work critically reexamines the relationship between analytically continued Hermitian field theory and PT-symmetric field theory, finding that PT-symmetric field theory does not generally correspond to the analytic continuation of the Hermitian theory, except at high temperature where the instanton contribution can be neglected.
Ordinary Hermitian lambda phi(4) theory is known to exist in d < 4 dimensions when lambda > 0. For negative values of the coupling, it has been suggested that a physical meaningful definition of the interacting theory can be given in terms of PT-symmetric field theory. In this work, we critically reexamine the relation between analytically continued Hermitian field theory with quartic interaction and PT-symmetric field theory, including O(N) models. We find that in general PT-symmetric field theory does not correspond to the analytic continuation of the Hermitian theory to negative coupling, except at high temperature where the instanton contribution present in the analytically continued theory can be neglected.
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