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The tensorial equations for non trivial fully interacting fixed points at lowest order in the ε expansion in 4 − ε and 3 − ε dimensions are analysed for N-component fields and corresponding multi-index couplings λ which are symmetric tensors with four or six indices. Both analytic and numerical methods are used. For N = 5, 6, 7 in the four-index case large numbers of irrational fixed points are found numerically where ‖λ‖2 is close to the bound found by Rychkov and Stergiou [1]. No solutions, other than those already known, are found which saturate the bound. These examples in general do not have unique quadratic invariants in the fields. For N ⩾ 6 the stability matrix in the full space of couplings always has negative eigenvalues. In the six index case the numerical search generates a very large number of solutions for N = 5.
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Osborn, H., Stergiou, A. Heavy handed quest for fixed points in multiple coupling scalar theories in the ε expansion. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 128 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2021)128
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