Functional renormalization group approach for tensorial group field theory: a rank-6 model with closure constraint

Abstract

We develop the functional renormalization group formalism for a tensorial group field theory with closure constraint, in the case of a just renormalizable model over , with quartic interactions. The method allows us to obtain a closed but non-autonomous system of differential equations which describe the renormalization group flow of the couplings beyond perturbation theory. The explicit dependence of the beta functions on the running scale is due to the existence of an external scale in the model, the radius of . We study the occurrence of fixed points and their critical properties in two different approximate regimes, corresponding to the deep UV and deep IR. Besides confirming the asymptotic freedom of the model, we find also a non-trivial fixed point, with one relevant direction. Our results are qualitatively similar to those found previously for a rank-3 model without closure constraint, and it is thus tempting to speculate that the presence of a Wilson–Fisher-like fixed point is a general feature of asymptotically free tensorial group field theories.