Holographic RG and Exact RG in O(N) Model

TL;DR

This paper derives an Exact Renormalization Group equation for the critical O(N) model near three dimensions, connecting it to holographic RG and AdS/CFT, and computes the leading cubic potential term.

Contribution

It introduces a novel ERG framework for the O(N) model that incorporates higher order potential terms, linking it to holographic RG and AdS space.

Findings

Derived ERG equation for O(N) model at Wilson-Fisher fixed point.

Mapped the ERG to a scalar field in AdS space.

Computed the leading cubic potential term, which vanishes at D=3.

Abstract

In this paper an Exact Renormalization Group (ERG) equation is written for the the critical $O(N)$ model in $D$-dimensions (with $D\approx 3$) at the Wilson-Fisher fixed point perturbed by a scalar composite operator. The action is written in terms of an auxiliary scalar field and reproduces correlation functions of a scalar composite operator. The equation is derived starting from the Polchinski ERG equation for the fundamental scalar field. As described in arXiv:1706.03371 an evolution operator for the Polchinski ERG equation can be written in the form of a functional integral, with a $D+1$ dimensional scalar field theory action. In the case of the fundamental scalar field this action only has a kinetic term and therefore looks quite different from Holographic RG where there are potential terms. But in the composite operator case discussed in this paper, the ERG equation and consequently the $D+1$ dimensional action contains higher order potential terms for the scalar field and is therefore very similar to the case of Holographic RG. Furthermore this action can be mapped to a scalar field action in $AdS_{D+1}$ using the techniques of arXiv:1706.03371. The leading cubic term of the potential is computed in this paper for $D \approx 3$ and expectedly vanishes in $D=3$ in agreement with results in the AdS/CFT literature.