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Counterterms in Truncated Conformal Perturbation Theory

arXiv:1803.05798

Abstract

We investigate the perturbative renormalisation of deformed conformal field theories from the Hamiltonian perspective. We discuss the relation with conformal perturbation theory, to which we provide an explicit match up to third order in the coupling, and show how second-order anomalous dimensions in the Wilson-Fisher fixed points are straightforwardly computed in the Hamiltonian framework. The second part of the paper focuses on the cutoff employed in the truncated conformal space approach of Yurov and Zamolodchikov. We discuss the appearance of non-covariant and non-local counterterms to second order in the cutoff, which we concretise in the theories, and find a smooth cutoff to deal with subleading oscillations.

31 pages, 5 figures

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