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Main Authors: Borsato, Riccardo, Itsios, Georgios, Miramontes, J. Luis, Siampos, Konstantinos
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20323
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author Borsato, Riccardo
Itsios, Georgios
Miramontes, J. Luis
Siampos, Konstantinos
author_facet Borsato, Riccardo
Itsios, Georgios
Miramontes, J. Luis
Siampos, Konstantinos
contents We construct a generalisation of the $λ$-deformation of the Principal Chiral Model (PCM) where we deform just a subgroup $F$ of the full symmetry group $G$. We find that demanding Lax integrability imposes a crucial restriction, namely that the coset $F\backslash G$ must be symmetric. Surprisingly, we also find that (when $F$ is non-abelian) integrability requires that the term in the action involving only the spectator fields should have a specific $λ$-dependence, which is a curious modification of the procedure expected from the known $F=G$ case. The resulting Lax connection has a novel analytical structure, with four single poles as opposed to the two poles of the cases of the PCM and of the standard $λ$-deformation. We also explicitly work out the example of $G=SU(2)$ and $F=U(1)$, discussing its renormalisation group flow to two loops.
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spellingShingle Integrability of the $λ$-deformation of the PCM with spectators
Borsato, Riccardo
Itsios, Georgios
Miramontes, J. Luis
Siampos, Konstantinos
High Energy Physics - Theory
We construct a generalisation of the $λ$-deformation of the Principal Chiral Model (PCM) where we deform just a subgroup $F$ of the full symmetry group $G$. We find that demanding Lax integrability imposes a crucial restriction, namely that the coset $F\backslash G$ must be symmetric. Surprisingly, we also find that (when $F$ is non-abelian) integrability requires that the term in the action involving only the spectator fields should have a specific $λ$-dependence, which is a curious modification of the procedure expected from the known $F=G$ case. The resulting Lax connection has a novel analytical structure, with four single poles as opposed to the two poles of the cases of the PCM and of the standard $λ$-deformation. We also explicitly work out the example of $G=SU(2)$ and $F=U(1)$, discussing its renormalisation group flow to two loops.
title Integrability of the $λ$-deformation of the PCM with spectators
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20323