Holographic RG and exact RG in O(N) model

Abstract

In this paper an Exact Renormalization Group (ERG) equation is written for the critical O(N) model in D-dimensions (with D≈3) at the Wilson-Fisher fixed point perturbed by a scalar composite operator. The action is written in terms of an auxiliary scalar field and reproduces correlation functions of a scalar composite operator. The equation is derived starting from the Polchinski ERG equation for the fundamental scalar field. As described in Sathiapalan and Sonoda (2017) [1] an evolution operator for the Polchinski ERG equation can be written in the form of a functional integral, with a D+1 dimensional scalar field theory action. In the case of the fundamental scalar field this action only has a kinetic term and therefore looks quite different from Holographic RG where there are potential terms. But in the composite operator case discussed in this paper, the ERG equation and consequently the D+1 dimensional action contains higher order potential terms for the scalar field and is therefore very similar to the case of Holographic RG. Furthermore this action can be mapped to a scalar field action in AdSD+1 using the techniques of ([1]). The leading cubic term of the potential is computed in this paper for D≈3 and expectedly vanishes in D=3 in agreement with results in the AdS/CFT literature.