1–5 Sept 2026
University of Sussex
Europe/London timezone

Multicritical fixed points from functional renormalisation

1 Sept 2026, 15:36
1m
Large Lecture Theatre (Jubilee Building)

Large Lecture Theatre

Jubilee Building

Speaker

Iason Vakondios

Description

We investigate multicritical points in O(N) symmetric scalar field theories in various dimensions. Using functional renormalisation to leading order in a derivative expansion, we find analytical and numerical results for critical and multi-critical points. In the large-N limit, we investigate local and global fixed points, and the availability of lines of fixed points analogous to the BMB phenomenon for tri-critical theories in 3D. For suitable choices of the regularisation, we find analytic results for the critical potential, and demonstrate that the spectrum of eigenperturbations is given in terms of generalised Laguerre polynomials.

Affiliation University of Sussex, University of Patras
Career status PhD student

Authors

Daniel Litim (University of Sussex) Iason Vakondios

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