Ginzburg-Landau description of a class of non-unitary minimal models

Andrei Katsevich, Igor R. Klebanov, Zimo Sun

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Abstract

It has been proposed that the Ginzburg-Landau description of the non-unitary conformal minimal model M (3, 8) is provided by the Euclidean theory of two real scalar fields with third-order interactions that have imaginary coefficients. The same lagrangian describes the non-unitary model M (3, 10), which is a product of two Yang-Lee theories M (2, 5), and the Renormalization Group flow from it to M (3, 8). This proposal has recently passed an important consistency check, due to Y. Nakayama and T. Tanaka, based on the anomaly matching for non-invertible topological lines. In this paper, we elaborate the earlier proposal and argue that the two-field theory describes the D series modular invariants of both M (3, 8) and M (3, 10). We further propose the Ginzburg-Landau descriptions of the entire class of D series minimal models M (q, 3q – 1) and M (q, 3q + 1), with odd integer q. They involve PT symmetric theories of two scalar fields with interactions of order q multiplied by imaginary coupling constants.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number170
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2025
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2025

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Keywords

  • Effective Field Theories
  • Global Symmetries
  • Renormalization Group
  • Scale and Conformal Symmetries

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