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  • Letter
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Exact results for scaling dimensions of neutral operators in scalar conformal field theories

Oleg Antipin1,*, Jahmall Bersini2,†, and Francesco Sannino3,4,5,6,‡

  • *Contact author: oantipin@irb.hr
  • †Contact author: jahmall.bersini@ipmu.jp
  • ‡Contact author: sannino@qtc.sdu.dk

Phys. Rev. D 111, L041701 – Published 12 February, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.L041701

Abstract

We determine the scaling dimension Δn for the class of composite operators ϕn in the λϕ4 theory in d=4−ε taking the double scaling limit n→∞ and λ→0 with fixed λn via a semiclassical approach. Our results resum the leading power of n at any loop order. In the small λn regime we reproduce the known diagrammatic results and predict the infinite series of higher-order terms. For intermediate values of λn we find that Δn/n increases monotonically approaching a (λn)1/3 behavior in the λn→∞ limit. We further generalize our results to neutral operators in the ϕ4 in d=4−ε, ϕ3 in d=6−ε, and ϕ6 in d=3−ε theories with O(N) symmetry.

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