Nonperturbative renormalization group approach to Lifshitz critical behaviour

K. Essafi, J. -P. Kownacki, D. Mouhanna

Published 2012-02-27, updated 2012-06-18Version 2

The behaviour of a d-dimensional vectorial N=3 model at a m-axial Lifshitz critical point is investigated by means of a nonperturbative renormalization group approach that is free of the huge technical difficulties that plague the perturbative approaches and limit their computations to the lowest orders. In particular being systematically improvable, our approach allows us to control the convergence of successive approximations and thus to get reliable physical quantities in d=3.