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Browsing by Author "Petkou, A. C."

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    Gauge Fields, Membranes, and Subdeterminant Vector Models
    Leigh, R. G.; Mauri, A.; Minic, Djordje; Petkou, A. C. (American Physical Society, 2010-06-01)
    We present a class of classically marginal N-vector models in d = 4 and d = 3 whose scalar potentials can be written as subdeterminants of symmetric matrices. The d = 3 case can be thought of as a generalization of the scalar sector of the Bagger-Lambert- Gustavsson model. Using the Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation we calculate their effective potentials which exhibit intriguing large-N scaling behaviors. We comment on the possible relevance of our models to strings, membranes, and also to a class of novel spin systems that are based on ternary commutation relations.