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Flowing between fermionic fixed points

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We study holographic Wilsonian renormalization group flows for bulk spinor fields in AdS. We use this to compute beta functions for a number of double trace fermionic operators in the dual conformal field theory.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    João N. Laia & David Tong

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Laia, J.N., Tong, D. Flowing between fermionic fixed points. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 131 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2011)131

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