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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Conformal invariance of the large-N limit of the O(N) universality class
Santiago Cabrera1, Gonzalo De Polsi1, Adam Rançon2,3
1Universidad de la República, Instituto de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Iguá 4225, 11400 Montevideo, Uruguay.
Abstract:
Conformal symmetry is expected to be realized in many equilibrium statistical mechanical systems at criticality. Although this is certainly true in two-dimensional systems, the three-dimensional case is subtler, and only a few proofs exist, only so in very specific cases. In this work, we give two proofs for the large-N limit of the O(N) universality class within the nonperturbative renormalization group framework: one functional, and one vertex-by-vertex in Fourier space. While doing so, we unveil how the theory is structured in order for conformal symmetry to be realized. As a consequence, we shed light on what to expect, on rather general grounds, for a theory to be conformally invariant.
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