Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
1995-07-07
Phys.Rev. D53 (1996) 3445-3450
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
14 pages (latex) + 1 figure (Postscript) ,uuencoded
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.53.3445
I provide evidence that the 2D $RP^{N-1}$ model for $N \ge 3$ is equivalent to the $O(N)$-invariant non-linear $\sigma$-model in the continuum limit. To this end, I mainly study particular versions of the models, to be called constraint models. I prove that the constraint $RP^{N-1}$ and $O(N)$ models are equivalent for sufficiently weak coupling. Numerical results for their step-scaling function of the running coupling $\bar{g}^2= m(L) L$ are presented. The data confirm that the constraint $O(N)$ model is in the samei universality class as the $O(N)$ model with standard action. I show that the differences in the finite size scaling curves of $RP^{N-1}$i and $O(N)$ models observed by Caracciolo et al. can be explained as a boundary effect. It is concluded, in contrast to Caracciolo et al., that $RP^{N-1}$ and $O(N)$ models share a unique universality class.
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