Perturbative and Geometric Analysis of the Quartic Kontsevich Model

The analogue of Kontsevich's matrix Airy function, with the cubic potential Tr(Φ³) replaced by a quartic term Tr(Φ⁴) with the same covariance, provides a toy model for quantum field theory in which all correlation functions can be computed exactly and explicitly. In this paper, we show that dis...

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Hauptverfasser: Branahl, Johannes, Hock, Alexander, Wulkenhaar, Raimar
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description The analogue of Kontsevich's matrix Airy function, with the cubic potential Tr(Φ³) replaced by a quartic term Tr(Φ⁴) with the same covariance, provides a toy model for quantum field theory in which all correlation functions can be computed exactly and explicitly. In this paper, we show that distinguished polynomials of correlation functions, themselves given by quickly growing series of Feynman ribbon graphs, sum up to much simpler and highly structured expressions. These expressions are deeply connected with meromorphic forms conjectured to obey blobbed topological recursion. Moreover, we show how the exact solutions permit us to explore critical phenomena in the quartic Kontsevich model.
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Perturbative and Geometric Analysis of the Quartic Kontsevich Model. Johannes Branahl, Alexander Hock and Raimar Wulkenhaar. SIGMA 17 (2021), 085, 33 pages
1815-0659
2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: 81T18; 81T16; 14H81; 32A20
arXiv:2012.02622
https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/211442
https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2021.085
The analogue of Kontsevich's matrix Airy function, with the cubic potential Tr(Φ³) replaced by a quartic term Tr(Φ⁴) with the same covariance, provides a toy model for quantum field theory in which all correlation functions can be computed exactly and explicitly. In this paper, we show that distinguished polynomials of correlation functions, themselves given by quickly growing series of Feynman ribbon graphs, sum up to much simpler and highly structured expressions. These expressions are deeply connected with meromorphic forms conjectured to obey blobbed topological recursion. Moreover, we show how the exact solutions permit us to explore critical phenomena in the quartic Kontsevich model.
It is a pleasure to dedicate this paper to Dirk Kreimer, who substantially supported this research project. The groundwork [31] was laid during the Les Houches 2018 summer school “Structures in local quantum field theories” organised by Spencer Bloch and Dirk Kreimer. AH and RW would like to thank Karen Yeats and Erik Panzer for the invitation to present our results at the IHES remote conference “Algebraic Structures in Perturbative Quantum Field Theory” in honour of Dirk Kreimer’s 60th birthday. Our work was supported⁸ by the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics M¨unster and the CRC 1442 Geometry: Deformations and Rigidity. AH is supported through the Walter Benjamin fellowship.⁹
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Perturbative and Geometric Analysis of the Quartic Kontsevich Model
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spellingShingle Perturbative and Geometric Analysis of the Quartic Kontsevich Model
Branahl, Johannes
Hock, Alexander
Wulkenhaar, Raimar
title Perturbative and Geometric Analysis of the Quartic Kontsevich Model
title_full Perturbative and Geometric Analysis of the Quartic Kontsevich Model
title_fullStr Perturbative and Geometric Analysis of the Quartic Kontsevich Model
title_full_unstemmed Perturbative and Geometric Analysis of the Quartic Kontsevich Model
title_short Perturbative and Geometric Analysis of the Quartic Kontsevich Model
title_sort perturbative and geometric analysis of the quartic kontsevich model
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