Στα πλαίσια της παρούσας διδακτορικής διατριβής γίνεται μελέτη διδιάστατων ολοκληρώσιμων θεωριών πεδίου, οι οποίες κατασκευάζονται από την παραμόρφωση σύμμορφων θεωριών με τρόπο τέτοιο, ώστε να διατηρείται η ολοκληρωσιμότητά τους. Οι συμμετρίες που διέπουν αυτές τις θεωρίες καθιστούν δυνατό τον επακριβή υπολογισμό φυσικών μεγεθών ως προς την παράμετρο της παραμόρφωσης, και έμφαση δίνεται στον προσδιορισμό των συναρτήσεων της ομάδας
επανακανονικοποίησης καθώς και της συνάρτησης κεντρικού φορτίου.
Τα αποτελέσματα που προκύπτουν γενικεύονται και επεκτείνονται και για την περίπτωση μη ολοκληρώσιμων παραμορφώσεων σύμμορφων θεωριών πεδίου.
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In the context of the present dissertation, deformations of two-dimensional Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) with specific symmetries have been studied, while emphasis was given to the study of the properties of the aforementioned theories under the Renormalization Group (RG) flow. More specifically, the so-called λ-deformed σ-models represent deformations of the Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) models by a set of classically marginal, bilinear in the WZW currents, operators, through a deformation matrix λ. These models, for specific choices of the matrix λ, maintain their integrability even after the deformation. Furthermore, their effective actions are endowed with a duality-type symmetry, which (for large values of the level k of the underlying Kac-Moody algebra) involves the inversion of the deformation matrix and the group element, along with the change of the sign of k. This symmetry allows the exact, with respect to the deformation parameter λ, computation of physical quantities, with minimal to no use of perturbation theory. However, all physical quantities computed for these models are still perturbative with respect to the 1/k expansion for large k. Thus, the duality-type symmetry, as described above, allows the computation of exact in λ results, but up to 1/k in the large k expansion.
In this framework, the β-functions, the anomalous dimension of operators and the central charge C-functions have been computed for various generalizations of the original λ-deformed σ-models described above, using both field theory and gravity techniques.
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