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Title: Spontaneous breaking of scale invariance in a D = 3 U(N ) model with Chern-Simons gauge fields

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
 [1];  [2]
  1. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  2. Israel Inst. of Technology, Haifa (Israel). Dept. of Physics

We study spontaneous breaking of scale invariance in the large N limit of three dimensional U(N )κ Chern-Simons theories coupled to a scalar field in the fundamental representation. When a λ6 ( Ø· Ø)3 self interaction term is added to the action we find a massive phase at a certain critical value for a combination of the λ(6) and ’t Hooft’s λ = N/κ couplings. This model attracted recent attention since at finite κ it contains a singlet sector which is conjectured to be dual to Vasiliev’s higher spin gravity on AdS4. Our paper concentrates on the massive phase of the 3d boundary theory. We discuss the advantage of introducing masses in the boundary theory through spontaneous breaking of scale invariance.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1128781
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-13-552-T; CERN-PH-TH-2013-299; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1402.4196
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2014, Issue 6; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer BerlinCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 21 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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Cited By (8)

FRW and domain walls in higher spin gravity journal March 2018
Duality and an exact Landau-Ginzburg potential for quasi-bosonic Chern-Simons-Matter theories journal November 2018
Large N limit of supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter model: Breakdown of superconformal symmetry journal January 2017
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FRW and domain walls in higher spin gravity text January 2017
Duality and an exact Landau-Ginzburg potential for quasi-bosonic Chern-Simons-Matter theories text January 2018

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