Third-order renormalization group applied to the attractive one-dimensional Fermi gas

Abstract

We consider a Callan-Symanzik and a Wilson Renormalization Group approach to the infrared problem for interacting fermions in one dimension with backscattering. We compute the third order (two-loop) approximation of the beta function using both methods and compare it with the well known multiplicative Gell-Mann Low approach. We point out a previously unnoticed qualitative dependence of the third order fixed point on an arbitrary dimensionless parameter, which strongly suggest the spurious nature of the fixed point.