Ginzburg-Landau description of a class of non-unitary minimal models

Abstract It has been proposed that the Ginzburg-Landau description of the non-unitary conformal minimal model M (3, 8) is provided by the Euclidean theory of two real scalar fields with third-order interactions that have imaginary coefficients. The same lagrangian describes the non-unitary model M (...

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Main Authors: Andrei Katsevich, Igor R. Klebanov, Zimo Sun
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Published: SpringerOpen 2025-03-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2025)170
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description Abstract It has been proposed that the Ginzburg-Landau description of the non-unitary conformal minimal model M (3, 8) is provided by the Euclidean theory of two real scalar fields with third-order interactions that have imaginary coefficients. The same lagrangian describes the non-unitary model M (3, 10), which is a product of two Yang-Lee theories M (2, 5), and the Renormalization Group flow from it to M (3, 8). This proposal has recently passed an important consistency check, due to Y. Nakayama and T. Tanaka, based on the anomaly matching for non-invertible topological lines. In this paper, we elaborate the earlier proposal and argue that the two-field theory describes the D series modular invariants of both M (3, 8) and M (3, 10). We further propose the Ginzburg-Landau descriptions of the entire class of D series minimal models M (q, 3q – 1) and M (q, 3q + 1), with odd integer q. They involve PT $$ \mathcal{PT} $$ symmetric theories of two scalar fields with interactions of order q multiplied by imaginary coupling constants.
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spelling doaj-art-9654ed5d24ce4fa5aea6f965fcb6e36e2025-08-20T02:16:56ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792025-03-012025311510.1007/JHEP03(2025)170Ginzburg-Landau description of a class of non-unitary minimal modelsAndrei Katsevich0Igor R. Klebanov1Zimo Sun2Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton UniversityJoseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton UniversityJoseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton UniversityAbstract It has been proposed that the Ginzburg-Landau description of the non-unitary conformal minimal model M (3, 8) is provided by the Euclidean theory of two real scalar fields with third-order interactions that have imaginary coefficients. The same lagrangian describes the non-unitary model M (3, 10), which is a product of two Yang-Lee theories M (2, 5), and the Renormalization Group flow from it to M (3, 8). This proposal has recently passed an important consistency check, due to Y. Nakayama and T. Tanaka, based on the anomaly matching for non-invertible topological lines. In this paper, we elaborate the earlier proposal and argue that the two-field theory describes the D series modular invariants of both M (3, 8) and M (3, 10). We further propose the Ginzburg-Landau descriptions of the entire class of D series minimal models M (q, 3q – 1) and M (q, 3q + 1), with odd integer q. They involve PT $$ \mathcal{PT} $$ symmetric theories of two scalar fields with interactions of order q multiplied by imaginary coupling constants.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2025)170Effective Field TheoriesGlobal SymmetriesRenormalization GroupScale and Conformal Symmetries
spellingShingle Andrei Katsevich
Igor R. Klebanov
Zimo Sun
Ginzburg-Landau description of a class of non-unitary minimal models
Journal of High Energy Physics
Effective Field Theories
Global Symmetries
Renormalization Group
Scale and Conformal Symmetries
title Ginzburg-Landau description of a class of non-unitary minimal models
title_full Ginzburg-Landau description of a class of non-unitary minimal models
title_fullStr Ginzburg-Landau description of a class of non-unitary minimal models
title_full_unstemmed Ginzburg-Landau description of a class of non-unitary minimal models
title_short Ginzburg-Landau description of a class of non-unitary minimal models
title_sort ginzburg landau description of a class of non unitary minimal models
topic Effective Field Theories
Global Symmetries
Renormalization Group
Scale and Conformal Symmetries
url https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2025)170
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