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Minimal Model Renormalization Group Flows: Noninvertible Symmetries and Nonperturbative Description

Federico Ambrosino1,* and Stefano Negro2,†

  • *Contact author: federicoambrosino25@gmail.com
  • †Contact author: stefano.negro@york.ac.uk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 021602 – Published 8 July, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/dg1s-5vp6

Abstract

In this Letter we continue the investigation of RG flows between Virasoro minimal models of two-dimensional conformal field theories that are protected by noninvertible symmetries. RG flows leaving unbroken a subcategory of noninvertible symmetries are associated with anomaly matching conditions that we employ systematically to map the space of flows between minimal models beyond the Z2-symmetric proposed recently in the literature. We introduce a family of nonlinear integral equations that appear to encode the exact finite-size, ground-state energies of these flows, including nonintegrable cases, such as the recently proposed M(kq+I,q)→M(kq−I,q). Our family of NLIEs encompasses and generalizes the integrable flows known in the literature: ϕ(1,3), ϕ(1,5), ϕ(1,2) and ϕ(2,1). This work uncovers a new interplay between exact solvability and noninvertible symmetries. Furthermore, our nonperturbative description provides a nontrivial test for all the flows conjectured by anomaly matching conditions, but so far not observed by other means.

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