Thursday, February 23, 2012

1202.4757 (Jean-François Fortin et al.)

Scale without Conformal Invariance at Three Loops    [PDF]

Jean-François Fortin, Benjamin Grinstein, Andreas Stergiou
We carry out a three-loop computation that establishes the existence of scale
without conformal invariance in dimensional regularization with the MS scheme
in d=4-epsilon spacetime dimensions. We also comment on the effects of scheme
changes in theories with many couplings, as well as in theories that live on
non-conformal scale-invariant renormalization group trajectories. Stability
properties of such trajectories are analyzed, revealing both attractive and
repulsive directions in a specific example. We explain how our results are in
accord with those of Jack & Osborn on a c-theorem in d=4 (and d=4-epsilon)
dimensions. Finally, we point out that limit cycles with turning points are
unlike limit cycles with continuous scale invariance.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4757

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