Published April 2, 1984 | Version v1
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Spontaneous breaking of scale invariance and the ultraviolet fixed point in O(N)-symmetric (Phi36) theory

  • 1. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510

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At large N, the etaphi6 theory is shown to possess a nontrivial ultraviolet fixed point. A new phase is found where asymptotic scale invariance is spontaneously broken and a dynamical mass is generated through dimensional transmutation. At the tricritical limit, the spontaneous breaking of an exact scale invariance at leading N results in the formation of a massless composite Goldstone mode, the dilaton. We compare these results to standard 1/N expansion and emphasize the nonperturbative nature of these phenomena

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Journal Title
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Volume
52
Journal Issue
14
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
1188-1191
ISSN
0031-9007