SPACE-TIME AND SCALING TECHNIQUES IN THE KONDO PROBLEM

Philip Warren Anderson

P. P. TANS, Ger Vertogen, J.G.J. Ypma +1 more

Peter Schmitteckert

In this work we combine the well established Kondo problem with the more speculative field of a discrete space time. We show that a discrete energy space induces a flow towards a new fixed point by breaking the conservation of charge and spin and lifting the fermion parity. This parity lifting fixed point appears on a scale set by the discretization of energy space. In contrast to the Planck scale the associated energy scale is at very low energy scales, possibly given by the inverse size of the universe.

Detlev Buchholz A, Rainer Verch

For any given algebra of local observables in Minkowski space an associated scaling algebra is constructed on which renormalization group (scaling) transformations act in a canonical manner. The method can be carried over to arbitrary space-time manifolds and provides a framework for the systematic analysis of the short distance properties of local quantum field theories. It is shown that every theory has a (possibly non-unique) scaling limit which can be classified according to its classical or quantum nature. Dilation invariant theories are stable under the action of the renormalization group. Within this framework the problem of wedge (Bisognano-Wichmann) duality in the scaling limit is discussed and some of its physical implications are outlined.

V.M. Filyov, Paul B. Wiegmann

Malte Henkel

The extension of dynamical scaling to local, space-time dependent rescaling factors is investigated. For a dynamical exponent z=2, the corresponding invariance group is the Schrödinger group. Schrödinger invariance is shown to determine completely the two-point correlation function. The result is checked in two exactly solvable models.