Continuum limit of two-dimensional multiflavor scalar gauge theories

Abstract

We address the interplay between local and global symmetries by analyzing the continuum limit of two-dimensional multicomponent scalar lattice gauge theories, endowed by non-Abelian local and global invariance. These theories are asymptotically free. By exploiting Monte Carlo simulations and finite-size scaling techniques, we provide numerical results concerning the universal behavior of such models in the critical regime. Our results support the conjecture that two-dimensional multiflavor scalar models have the same continuum limit as the $\sigma$-models associated with symmetric spaces that have the same global symmetry.

7 pages, 4 figures, proceeding for The 38th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, LATTICE2021, 26th-30th July, 2021, Zoom/Gather@Massachusetts Institute of Technology