Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2009-06-18
JHEP 0911:020,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
20 pages, 2 figures. v2: Important improvements in the IR evolution of couplings. A new section, several corrections and refer
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/11/020
We study the one-loop renormalization and evolution of the couplings in scalar field theories of the Lifshitz type, i.e. with different scaling in space and time. These theories are unitary and renormalizable, thanks to higher spatial derivative terms that modify the particle propagator at high energies, but at the expense of explicitly breaking Lorentz symmetry. We study if and under what conditions the Lorentz symmetry can be considered as emergent at low energies by studying the RG evolution of the ``speed of light'' coupling $c^2_\phi$ and, for more than one field, of $\delta c^2\equiv c^2_{\phi_1}-c^2_{\phi_2}$ in simple models. We find that in the UV both $c^2_\phi$ and $\delta c^2$ generally flow logarithmically with the energy scale. A logarithmic running of $c^2$ persists also at low-energies, if $\delta c^2 \neq 0$ in the UV. As a result, Lorentz symmetry is not recovered at low energies with the accuracy needed to withstand basic experimental constraints, unless all the Lorentz breaking terms, including $\delta c^2$, are unnaturally fine-tuned to extremely small values in the UV. We expect that the considerations of this paper will apply to any generic theory of Lifshitz type, including a recently proposed quantum theory of gravity by Horava.
Iengo Roberto
Russo Jorge G.
Serone Marco
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