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 This also goes by the name of the "n-vector model". Its Ginzburg-Landau description is the critical point of an O$(N)$-symmetric vector $\phi_i$ of scalar fields with a $\phi^4 =(\phi_i \phi_i)^2$ interaction. This also goes by the name of the "n-vector model". Its Ginzburg-Landau description is the critical point of an O$(N)$-symmetric vector $\phi_i$ of scalar fields with a $\phi^4 =(\phi_i \phi_i)^2$ interaction.
  
-Until 2025 this was thought to be the same CFT as the non-linear $\sigma$ model$, but recent research has challenged this identification: the NLSM has a protected operator of dimension $N-1$ which cannot be seen in the WF CFT [1](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21611) [2](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10194). +Until 2025 this was thought to be the same CFT as the non-linear $\sigma$ model (NLSM), but recent research has challenged this identification: the NLSM has a protected operator of dimension $N-1$ which cannot be seen in the WF CFT [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21611 | 1]] [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10194 | 2]]. 
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 +There are very similar versions of this CFT with different statistics. 
 +The fermionic version is the [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.05316 | Gross-Neveu-Yukawa CFT]], which is the critical point of the U$(N)$-symmetric QFT of $N$ fermions and one scalar field. 
 +There is also a very similar supersymmetric CFT with $N+1$ chiral superfields: see [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.1937 | section 4.3]]. 
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 +===== General dimension ===== 
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 +This CFT is usually thought to exist between 2 and 4 dimensions. However, if we are willing to consider complex (i.e. nonunitary) CFTs, it also [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02462 | exists in $d>4$]].
  
 ===== Large-N limit ===== ===== Large-N limit =====
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