Renormalization flow for unrooted forests on a triangular lattice

Sergio Caracciolo, Claudia De Grandi, Andrea Sportiello

Published 2007-05-26, updated 2007-06-14Version 2

We compute in small temperature expansion the two-loop renormalization constants and the three-loop coefficient of the beta-function, that is the first non-universal term, for the sigma-model with O(N) invariance on the triangular lattice at N=-1. The partition function of the corresponding Grassmann theory is, for negative temperature, the generating function of unrooted forests on such a lattice, where the temperature acts as a chemical potential for the number of trees in the forest. To evaluate Feynman diagrams we extend the coordinate space method to the triangular lattice.