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Vincent Lahoche

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arXiv2024

An intriguing connection between Pisarski's fixed point and (2+3)-spin glasses

This paper aims to establish a connection between Pisarski's fixed point and a (2+3)-spin-glass model with sextic confinement potential. This is made possible by the unconventional power-counting induced by the effective kinetics provided by the disorder coupling in the large $N$-limit. Because of the absence of epsilon expansion, our approach is more attractive than the previous one. It may be relevant to the signal detection issue in nearly continuous spectra.

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arXiv2024

Functional renormalization group for p=2 like glassy matrices in the planar approximation: III. Equilibrium dynamics and beyond

This paper is the last of the series investigating renormalization group aspects of stochastic random matrices, including a Wigner-like disorder. We consider the equilibrium dynamics formalism that can be merged with the Ward identities arising from the large N effective kinetics. We construct a regulator that does not break time-reversal symmetry and show that the resulting flow equations reduce to the equilibrium flow built in our previous works. Finally, we investigate the flow equations beyond the equilibrium dynamics assumption and study the stability of the perturbation around the fluctuation-dissipation theorem.

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arXiv2024

Functional renormalization group for p=2 like glassy matrices in the planar approximation: I. Vertex expansion at equilibrium

In this paper, we study the equilibrium states of a $N\times N$ stochastic complex random matrix $M$, whose entries evolve in time accordingly with a Langevin equation including both Gaussian white noises and a linear disorder, materialized by the Wigner random matrices. In large $N$-limit, the disorders behave as effective kinetics, and we examine a coarse-graining over the Wigner spectrum accordingly with two different schemes that we call respectively active and passive. We then investigate explicit solutions of the nonperturbative renormalization group using vertex and derivative expansion, a simple way to deal with the nonlocal nature of the effective field theory at large $N$. Our main statement is the existence of well-behaved fixed point solutions and at least some evidence about a discontinuous (first order) phase transition between a condensed and a dilute phase. We finally interpret the resulting phase space regarding the out-of-equilibrium process related to the dynamical phase transitions.

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arXiv2024

Functional renormalization group for $p=2$ like glassy matrices in the planar approximation: II. Ward identities method in the deep IR

This paper, as a continuation of our previous investigation [arXiv:2403.07577] aims to study the glassy random matrices with quenched Wigner disorder. In this previous work, we have constructed a renormalization group based on the effective deterministic kinetic spectrum emerging from large $N$ limit, and we extended approximate solutions using standard vertex expansion, at the leading order of the derivative expansion. Now in the following work, by introducing the non-trivial Ward identities which come from the $(\mathcal{U}(N))^{\times 2}$ symmetry broken of the effective kinetic action, we provide in the deep IR the explicit solution of the functional renormalization group for a model with quartic coupling by solving the Hierarchy to all orders in the local sector, which in particular imply the vanishing of the anomalous dimension. The numerical investigations confirm the first-order phase transition discovered in the vertex expansion framework, both in the active and passive schemes. Finally, we extend the discussion to hermitian matrices.

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arXiv2024

Noether's currents for conformable fractional scalar field theories

The construction of fractional derivatives with the right properties for use in field theory is reputed to be a difficult task, essentially because of the absence of a unique definition and uniform properties. The conformable fractional derivative introduced in 2014 by Khalil et al. in their seminal paper is a novel and well-behaved definition of fractional derivative for a function which is derivable in the usual sense. In this paper, we investigate the consistency of the Euler-Lagrange formalism for a field theory defined on such a fractional space-time. We especially focus on the relation between symmetries and conservation laws (Noether's currents), about the symmetry group introduced to construct the Lagrangian of the field. In particular, we show that the use of the conformable derivative induces additional terms in the calculation of the action variation. We also investigate the conservation of the Noether current and show that this property only takes place on condition that the equations of motion are verified with a new definition of the conserved law.

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arXiv2024

Gravitational action for a massive Majorana fermion in 2d quantum gravity

We compute the gravitational action of a free massive Majorana fermion coupled to two-dimensional gravity on compact Riemann surfaces of arbitrary genus. The structure is similar to the case of the massive scalar. The small-mass expansion of the gravitational yields the Liouville action at zeroth order, and we can identify the Mabuchi action at first order. While the massive Majorana action is a conformal deformation of the massless Majorana CFT, we find an action different from the one given by the David-Distler-Kawai (DDK) ansatz.

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arXiv2023

Functional renormalization group for signal detection and stochastic ergodicity breaking

Signal detection is one of the main challenges of data science. As it often happens in data analysis, the signal in the data may be corrupted by noise. There is a wide range of techniques aimed at extracting the relevant degrees of freedom from data. However, some problems remain difficult. It is notably the case of signal detection in almost continuous spectra when the signal-to-noise ratio is small enough. This paper follows a recent bibliographic line which tackles this issue with field-theoretical methods. Previous analysis focused on equilibrium Boltzmann distributions for some effective field representing the degrees of freedom of data. It was possible to establish a relation between signal detection and $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetry breaking. In this paper, we consider a stochastic field framework inspiring by the so-called "Model A", and show that the ability to reach or not an equilibrium state is correlated with the shape of the dataset. In particular, studying the renormalization group of the model, we show that the weak ergodicity prescription is always broken for signals small enough, when the data distribution is close to the Marchenko-Pastur (MP) law. This, in particular, enables the definition of a detection threshold in the regime where the signal-to-noise ratio is small enough.

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arXiv2023

Anomalous higher order Ward identities in tensorial group field theories without closure constraint

The Ward-Takahashi identities are considered as the generalization of the Noether currents available to quantum field theory and include quantum fluctuation effects. Usually, they take the form of relations between correlation functions, which ultimately correspond to the relation between coupling constants of the theory. For this reason, they play a central role in the construction of renormalized theory, providing strong relations between counter-terms. Since last years, they have been intensively considered in the construction of approximate solutions for nonperturbative renormalization group of tensorial group field theories. The construction of these identities is based on the formal invariance of the partition function under a unitary transformation, and Ward's identities result from a first-order expansion around the identity. Due to the group structure of the transformation under consideration, it is expected that a first-order expansion is indeed sufficient. We show in this article that this does not seem to be the case for a complex tensor theory model, with a kinetic term involving a Laplacian.

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arXiv2023

Stochastic melonic kinetics with random initial conditions

The probability laws associated with random tensors or tensor field theories are traditionally equilibrium distributions. In this paper, we consider a stochastic point of view, and approach the quantization by a Langevin type equation. We especially address the low-temperature behavior of the phase ordering kinetics of a stochastic complex tensor field $T_{i_1\cdots i_d}(x,t)$ of size $N$ and rank $d$ in dimension $D$. The method we propose use the self averaging property of the tensorial invariants in the large $N$ limit. In this regime, the dynamics is governed by the melonic sector, whose behavior is studied in the quenched limit, where the contractions involving $d-1$ indices self-average around a diagonal matrix proportional to the identity. The following work especially focuses on the cyclic (i.e. non-branching) melonic sector, and we study the way that the system returns to the equilibrium regime regarding the temperature and the shape of the potential. In particular, we provide a general formula for the transition temperature between these regimes. The manuscript is accompanied by numerical simulations to support the theoretical analysis, and essentially aims to open towards this new field of investigation.

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arXiv2023

Revisited functional renormalization group approach for random matrices in the large-$N$ limit

The nonperturbative renormalization group has been considered as a solid framework to investigate fixed point and critical exponents for matrix and tensor models, expected to correspond with the so-called double scaling limit. In this paper, we focus on matrix models and address the question of the compatibility between the approximations used to solve the exact renormalization group equation and the modified Ward identities coming from the regulator. We show in particular that standard local potential approximation strongly violates the Ward identities, especially in the vicinity of the interacting fixed point. Extending the theory space including derivative couplings, we recover an interacting fixed point with a critical exponent not so far from the exact result, but with a nonzero value for derivative couplings, evoking a strong dependence concerning the regulator. Finally, we consider a modified regulator, allowing to keep the flow not so far from the ultralocal region and recover the results of the literature up to a slight improvement.

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arXiv2023

Large-$d$ behavior of the Feynman amplitudes for a just-renormalizable tensorial group field theory

This paper aims at giving a novel approach to investigate the behavior of the renormalization group flow for tensorial group field theories to all orders of the perturbation theory. From an appropriate choice of the kinetic kernel, we build an infinite family of just-renormalizable models, for tensor fields with arbitrary rank $d$. Investigating the large $ d$ limit, we show that the self-energy melonic amplitude is decomposed as a product of loop-vertex functions, depending only on dimensionless mass. The corresponding melonic amplitudes may be mapped as trees in the so-called Hubbard-Stratonivich representation, and we show that only trees with edges of different colors survive in the large $d$-limit. These two key features allow us to resum the perturbative expansion for self-energy, providing an explicit expression for arbitrary external momenta in terms of Lambert function. Finally, inserting this resumed solution into the Callan-Symanzik equations, and taking into account the strong relation between two and four-point functions arising from melonic Ward-Takahashi identities, we then deduce an explicit expression for relevant and marginal $β$-functions, valid to all orders of the perturbative expansion. By investigating the solutions of the resulting flow, we conclude about the non-existence of any fixed point in the investigated region of the full phase space.

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arXiv2023

Functional renormalization group for multilinear disordered Langevin dynamics I: Formalism and first numerical investigations at equilibrium

This paper aims at using the functional renormalization group formalism to study the equilibrium states of a stochastic process described by a quench--disordered multilinear Langevin equation. Such an equation characterizes the evolution of a time-dependent $N$-vector $q(t)=\{q_1(t),\cdots q_N(t)\}$ and is traditionally encountered in the dynamical description of glassy systems at and out of equilibrium through the so-called Glauber model. From the connection between Langevin dynamics and quantum mechanics in imaginary time, we are able to coarse-grain the path integral of the problem in the Fourier modes, and to construct a renormalization group flow for effective Euclidean action. In the large $N$-limit we are able to solve the flow equations for both matrix and tensor disorder. The numerical solutions of the resulting exact flow equations are then investigated using standard local potential approximation, taking into account the quench disorder. In the case where the interaction is taken to be matricial, for finite $N$ the flow equations are also solved. However, the case of finite $N$ and taking into account the non-equilibrum process will be considered in a companion investigation.

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arXiv2023

Functional renormalization group for multilinear disordered Langevin dynamics II: Revisiting the $p=2\,$ spin dynamics for Wigner and Wishart ensembles

In this paper, we investigate the large-time behavior for a slightly modified version of the standard p=2 soft spins dynamics model, including a quartic or higher potential. The equilibrium states of such a model correspond to an effective field theory, which has been recently considered as a novel paradigm for signal detection in data science based on the renormalization group argument. We consider a Langevin-like equation, including a disorder term that leaves in the Wigner or Wishart ensemble. Then we construct a nonperturbative renormalization group formalism valid in the large N limit, where eigenvalues distributions for the disorder can be replaced by their analytic limits, namely the Wigner and Marchenko-Pastur laws. One of the main advantages of this approach is that the interactions remain local in time, avoiding the non-locality arising from the approaches that integrate out the disorder at the partition function level.

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arXiv2022

Renormalization in the neural network-quantum field theory correspondence

A statistical ensemble of neural networks can be described in terms of a quantum field theory (NN-QFT correspondence). The infinite-width limit is mapped to a free field theory, while finite N corrections are mapped to interactions. After reviewing the correspondence, we will describe how to implement renormalization in this context and discuss preliminary numerical results for translation-invariant kernels. A major outcome is that changing the standard deviation of the neural network weight distribution corresponds to a renormalization flow in the space of networks.

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arXiv2022

Nonperturbative renormalization for the neural network-QFT correspondence

In a recent work arXiv:2008.08601, Halverson, Maiti and Stoner proposed a description of neural networks in terms of a Wilsonian effective field theory. The infinite-width limit is mapped to a free field theory, while finite $N$ corrections are taken into account by interactions (non-Gaussian terms in the action). In this paper, we study two related aspects of this correspondence. First, we comment on the concepts of locality and power-counting in this context. Indeed, these usual space-time notions may not hold for neural networks (since inputs can be arbitrary), however, the renormalization group provides natural notions of locality and scaling. Moreover, we comment on several subtleties, for example, that data components may not have a permutation symmetry: in that case, we argue that random tensor field theories could provide a natural generalization. Second, we improve the perturbative Wilsonian renormalization from arXiv:2008.08601 by providing an analysis in terms of the nonperturbative renormalization group using the Wetterich-Morris equation. An important difference with usual nonperturbative RG analysis is that only the effective (IR) 2-point function is known, which requires setting the problem with care. Our aim is to provide a useful formalism to investigate neural networks behavior beyond the large-width limit (i.e.~far from Gaussian limit) in a nonperturbative fashion. A major result of our analysis is that changing the standard deviation of the neural network weight distribution can be interpreted as a renormalization flow in the space of networks. We focus on translations invariant kernels and provide preliminary numerical results.

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arXiv2022

Reliability of the local truncations for the random tensor models renormalization group flow

The standard nonperturbative approaches of renormalization group for tensor models are generally focused on a purely local potential approximation (i.e. involving only generalized traces and product of them) and are showed to strongly violate the modified Ward identities. This paper as a continuation of our recent contribution [Physical Review D 101, 106015 (2020)], intended to investigate the approximation schemes compatibles with Ward identities and constraints between $2n$-points observables in the large $N$-limit. We consider separately two different approximations: In the first one, we try to construct a local potential approximation from a slight modification of the Litim regulator, so that it remains optimal in the usual sense, and preserves the boundary conditions in deep UV and deep IR limits. In the second one, we introduce derivative couplings in the truncations and show that the compatibility with Ward identities implies strong relations between $β$-functions, allowing to close the infinite hierarchy of flow equations in the non-branching sector, up to a given order in the derivative expansion. Finally, using exact relation between correlations functions in large $N$-limit, we show that strictly local truncations are insufficient to reach the exact value for the critical exponent, highlighting the role played by these strong relations between observables taking into account the behavior of the flow; and the role played by the multi-trace operators, discussed in the two different approximation schemes. In both cases, we compare our conclusions to the results obtained in the literature and conclude that, at a given order, taking into account the exact functional relations between observables like Ward identities in a systematic way we can strongly improve the physical relevance of the approximation for exact RG equation.

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arXiv2022

No Ward-Takahashi identity violation for an Abelian tensorial group field theories with closure constraint

This paper aims at investigating the nonperturbative functional renormalization group for tensorial group field theories with nontrivial kinetic action and closure constraint. We consider the quartic melonic just-renormalizable $[U(1)]^6$ model and show that due to this closure constraint the first order Ward-Takahashi identity takes the trivial form as for the models with propagators proportional to identity. We then construct the new version of the effective vertex expansion applicable to this class of models, which in particular allows to close the hierarchical structure of the flow equations in the melonic sector. As a consequence, there are no additional constraints on the flow equations, and then we can focus on the existence of the physical Wilson-Fisher fixed-points in the symmetric phase.

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arXiv2022

Pedagogical comments about nonperturbative Ward-constrained melonic renormalization group flow

This paper, in addition to our recent works, intends to explore the behavior of the Wetterich flow equations in the portion of the theory space spanned by non-branching melons constrained with Ward-identities. We focus on a rank-5 just-renormalizable tensorial group field theory and consider a non-trivial extension of the local potential approximation namely effective vertex expansion for just-renormalizable quartic melonic interactions, disregarding effects coming from disconnected interactions. Investigating the dynamically constrained flow, we show explicitly that results weakly rely on the number of quartic interactions involved in the classical action. In particular, the predictions for the fully connected model are essentially the same as for the single colored model. Finally, closing the flow equations using Ward identities without additional assumptions to compute integrals involved in the effective vertex expansion, we do not find reliable fixed point in the unconstrained theory space connected with the Gaussian region.

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