On the Free-Energy of Three-Dimensional CFTs and Polylogarithms

Abstract

We study the O(N) vector model and the U(N) Gross-Neveu model with fixed total fermion number, in three dimensions. Using non-trivial polylogarithmic identities, we calculate the large-N renormalized free-energy density of these models, at their conformal points in a ``slab'' geometry with one finite dimension of length L. We comment on the possible implications of our results.

Comments: Latex, 13 pages, 2 eps figures; v2 typos corrected; v3 Expanded discussion of the results, added references