2018/08/31 by Oleg Antipin, Nicola Andrea Dondi, Francesco Sannino +1
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Topology and Set Theory #Benford’s Law and Fraud Detection #Limits and Structures in Graph Theory #Mathematics #hep-lat #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.99.025004
published as Phys. Rev. D 99, 025004 (2019) · 5 pages, 2 figures - references updated, typos corrected
arxiv created 2018/12/18 · openalex created_date 2018/12/22 · openalex publication_date 2019/01/07 · arxiv updated 2019/01/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
We determine the Jack and Osborn a-function and related metric for gauge-fermion theories to leading order in the large number of fermions and to all orders in the gauge coupling, demonstrating that the strong a-theorem is violated for the minimal choice of the a-function.