• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.106.086022
• Corpus ID: 250073299

Marginal $T\bar{T}$-Like Deformation and ModMax Theories in Two Dimensions

@inproceedings{BabaeiAghbolagh2022MarginalD,
  title={Marginal \$T\bar\{T\}\$-Like Deformation and ModMax Theories in Two Dimensions},
  author={H. Babaei-Aghbolagh and Komeil Babaei Velni and Davood Mahdavian Yekta and Hosein Mohammadzadeh},
  year={2022}
}

• H. Babaei-Aghbolagh, Komeil Babaei Velni, +1 author H. Mohammadzadeh
• Published 25 June 2022
• Physics

Recently, the ModMax theory has been proposed as a unique conformal non-linear extension of electrodynamic theories. We have shown in [1] that this modification can be reproduced by using a marginal T ¯ T -like deformation from pure Maxwell theory. Further, it was shown that this deformation is solvable by applying a perturbative approach. In this paper, we will investigate a similar marginal T ¯ T -like deformation for a general two-dimensional scalar field theory. It is shown that employing an irrelevant T ¯ T operator on this marginal scalar theory will produce a generalized Nambu-Goto action of this scalar theory which is a Born-Infeld-like action in two dimensions. Using a similar prescription for a two-dimensional theory with multiple scalar fields, we show that the marginal T ¯ T -like deformation yields a ModMax-like Lagrangian and then the irrelevant operator produces a generalized scalar ModMax action.