Journal of High Energy Physics (Sep 2018)

Higher melonic theories

  • Steven S. Gubser,
  • Christian Jepsen,
  • Ziming Ji,
  • Brian Trundy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2018)049
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2018, no. 9
pp. 1 – 35

Abstract

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Abstract We classify a large set of melonic theories with arbitrary q-fold interactions, demonstrating that the interaction vertices exhibit a range of symmetries, always of the form ℤ2 n for some n, which may be 0. The number of different theories proliferates quickly as q increases above 8 and is related to the problem of counting one-factorizations of complete graphs. The symmetries of the interaction vertex lead to an effective interaction strength that enters into the Schwinger-Dyson equation for the two-point function as well as the kernel used for constructing higher-point functions.

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